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'A gamble with our lives': Ex-Anthropic researcher warns of AI 'catastrophe'

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Jacob Coxon says AI executives privately fear catastrophe while racing to build it anyway. His exit follows a summer of AI containment failures and a new push in Congress to ban superintelligent AI outright.

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  1. 2026-09-10 19:28 · CNET AI
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  2. 2026-09-09 11:24 · Euronews Next
    'A gamble with our lives': Ex-Anthropic researcher warns of AI 'catastrophe'

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