A former safety researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned and went public with a blunt warning that neither company "is acting responsibly", days before Anthropic's own CEO called for the industry to slow down. Jacob Coxon walked away from Anthropic and took his concerns to national television, telling ABC News anchor George […] The post Former Anthropic and OpenAI safety researcher quits, warns AI companies are "gambling with our lives" appeared first on American Almanac .
A former safety researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned and went public with a blunt warning that neither company "is acting responsibly", days before Anthropic's own CEO called for the industry to slow down. Jacob Coxon walked away from Anthropic and took his concerns to national television, telling ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" that he welcomed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's newly published letter urging a pause in the breakneck pace of AI development. Coxon had already posted his own critique on X the week before, accusing both Anthropic and OpenAI of recklessness that could carry existential consequences. The sequence matters. Coxon quit first. Then he posted. Then Amodei, his former boss,…Open
OpenAI will not go public this year given all the safety work it needs to do, CEO Sam Altman said in a Fortune interview released Saturday. Why it matters: Altman's comments come as fears over doomsday AI scenarios have ramped up since an Anthropic employee resigned and issued a dire warning about AI's capabilities. What they're saying: "Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public," Altman said . - "I would say not 2026, yeah. We got a lot of stuff to do." The intrigue: The market expected blockbuster IPOs from both OpenAI and Anthropic this year. - Altman's move puts the ball squarely in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's court — especially given Amodei's warning Saturday that AI development needs to be slowed. Editor's note:…
Ex-Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan and a former NSA engineer Alex Wright have teamed up on a subscription app that blocks AI from tracking you on your phone. “You go to a website; there’s some type of tracker cookie in there. You go to the next website, and they start to build a profile on you,” Wright says. Adds Ryan: “What the app does is it just blocks that from happening.” #AI #Tech Anchor Elizabeth Vargas delivers the biggest stories, without bias or opinion. Watch "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" every weeknight at 7p/6C on NewsNation. #VargasReports NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
State-run surveillance operations around the world are using Claude to streamline their operations, Anthropic said in a threat report released Thursday. Why it matters: The barriers for governments interested in spying on dissidents, politicians, journalists and human rights activists are getting lower as AI models get more powerful. Zoom in: Anthropic found people linked to governments in Mali, China and Iran using various Claude models to streamline their surveillance operations. - In Mali, a single consultant working for national security authorities used Claude to create a system that collects data from the country's mobile operators and builds dossiers about people. - Anthropic also disclosed another case where Iranian actors…
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
Elon Musk bought Twitter saying civilization needed a "common digital town square." Four years later, it's more like a live group chat for Silicon Valley's AI obsessives . Why it matters: Two years ago, X was fighting off competition from a slew of new entrants. Today, it remains relevant by becoming more niche. - The people making AI news are often debating it, explaining it and occasionally breaking it on X before the rest of the information ecosystem catches up. State of play: New model releases, research papers, demos, hiring moves, high-profile executive exits and technical arguments ricochet through X in real time. - The latest viral example came Tuesday when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation on X, along…
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The investigation comes amid rapidly escalating concern on Capitol Hill about the existential dangers posed by AI following public warnings by several Anthropic and OpenAI researchers. - "As you may know, in the public domain, more AI experts are warning about the existential risks of AI," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote in a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first obtained by Axios. - He added: "Just this week, three Anthropic researchers expressed publicly that there is a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all human beings within the next decade." Driving…
