Anthropic researchers warn out-of-control AI could destroy humans

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Today's Top Stories - September 9, 2026

Today's Top Stories - September 9, 2026

Several current and former Anthropic researchers are offering a stark warning about AI, suggesting the technology they are developing could destroy humanity in the near future.

Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at both Anthropic and OpenAI, argued Tuesday that neither company is acting responsibly as they race toward superintelligence and accused the AI firms of “gambling with our lives.”

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon wrote in a post on the social platform X, after announcing he had resigned from Anthropic.

“This is not a marketing stunt,” he continued. “If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in........

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