Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios. Why it matters: The disclosure raises the stakes on Coxon's now mega-viral resignation from the AI lab, which laid out the broad view that the tech could end humanity. What they're saying: "I no longer have anything to gain by juicing up Anthropic's valuation... I left before any of my equity vested," Coxon said in an interview with Axios Wednesday. - In his post on X announcing his resignation, which now has over 115 million views, he wrote: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt." - Other AI…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios. Why it matters: The disclosure raises the stakes on Coxon's now mega-viral resignation from the AI lab, which laid out the broad view that the tech could end humanity. What they're saying: "I no longer have anything to gain by juicing up Anthropic's valuation... I left before any of my equity vested," Coxon said in an interview with Axios Wednesday. - In his post on X announcing his resignation, which now has over 115 million views, he wrote: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt." - Other AI…Open
An online panic erupted this week after millions discovered that leading AI researchers routinely debate and calculate the risk of human extinction. - Taken at face value, the odds are chilling: 10%, 20%, sometimes far higher, assigned to the possibility of AI catastrophe. Why it matters: An esoteric debate over "p(doom) " has suddenly become a gut-level question for lawmakers, investors and millions of ordinary people: Why are we racing toward a technology its own builders believe could destroy us? Driving the news: A resignation post by Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher who previously worked at OpenAI, has drawn over 110 million views on X after he accused frontier labs of "gambling with our lives." - The warning became vastly…
An online panic erupted this week after millions discovered that leading AI researchers routinely debate and calculate the risk of human extinction. - Taken at face value, the odds are chilling: 10%, 20%, sometimes far higher, assigned to the possibility of AI catastrophe. Why it matters: An esoteric debate over "p(doom) " has suddenly become a gut-level question for lawmakers, investors and millions of ordinary people: Why are we racing toward a technology its own builders believe could destroy us? Driving the news: A resignation post by Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher who previously worked at OpenAI, has drawn over 110 million views on X after he accused frontier labs of "gambling with our lives." - The warning became vastly…Open
Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon sounded the alarm on rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, warning that those building the technology believe it could kill all humans by the end of the decade.
The resignation of an Anthropic researcher came with a stark warning. Jacob Coxon wrote on X, "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." NYU Professor Emeritus Gary Marcus and Co-host of the "Prof G Markets" podcast Ed Elson join Katy Tur to provide their insight.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” That blunt admission from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon made waves Tuesday, as the just-quit 27-year-old AI researcher spilled the beans on his way out the door in a resignation thread on X. The concerns are becoming commonplace. A number of AI employees have loudly quit their companies over safety concerns over the past several months and years. Others have publicly voiced worries that the technology is moving too quickly and will one day outpace humans’ ability to control it. 0:10 A message posted by a former Anthropic employee 3:15 Are AI companies trusted to be the adults in the room? 8:45 Anthropic CEO estimates 10-25% chance…
Their warnings echo concerns that other artificial intelligence experts have voiced in recent months, as calls increase for a slowdown in the pace of development.
