Jacob Coxon’s AI warning gets backing as more researchers sound alarm

Jacob Coxon’s warning about the superintelligence race is gaining support from researchers across Anthropic and Google DeepMind. The backlash comes after a string of AI safety concerns in 2026, including resignations, internal team changes and calls for governments to slow development.

Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent the past three years working on AI pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic, has resigned from Anthropic with one of the sharpest insider warnings yet about the race to build superintelligent AI. Coxon said the two companies are moving ahead even though many people inside the industry believe future systems could become dangerous enough to threaten human life.

His criticism is aimed at the structure of the race itself. Coxon wrote, “Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” He said researchers inside AI labs are already discussing systems that could become extremely capable at hacking, scientific work and gaining access to real resources.

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing........

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