Anthropic Researcher Publicly Resigns, Warns AI Could Kill Us All

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned this week, warning that self-improving superintelligence could kill us all by the end of the decade. Internal company chats called his remarks what everyone had been saying and welcomed the discussion going public.

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