Ex-OpenAI/Anthropic researcher quits, says AI labs are "gambling with our lives." Here's what's actually verifiable in that claim.
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Jacob Coxon, who did pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned this week and posted his reasoning publicly instead of just leaving quietly. The claim getting attention: AI labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Big statement, so…
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Ex-OpenAI/Anthropic researcher quits, says AI labs are "gambling with our lives." Here's what's actually verifiable in that claim.