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A guy who spent three years building this stuff just walked out and said "this could kill us all." Nobody stopped him.

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Jacob Coxon, ex-OpenAI, ex-Anthropic pretraining researcher, quit this week and posted on his way out: "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." His old colleague Evan Hubinger backed him up with his own number, greater than 10% odds of AI wiping us…

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  1. 2026-09-09 19:51 · The New Stack AI
    It could kill us all : what Anthropic's own researchers really think about superintelligence
  2. 2026-09-09 18:35 · r/antiai
    A guy who spent three years building this stuff just walked out and said "this could kill us all." Nobody stopped him.

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