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An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

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An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company's own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It's the kind of doomer warning the AI i…

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  1. 2026-09-11 18:41 · TechCrunch AI
    An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

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