AI leaders' call for a safety slowdown meets scepticism from critics and the White House
X-Risk Daily
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Transformative AI
The dispute over frontier AI safety escalated after Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, published his resignation announcement on X on 8 September, writing that "they are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives" and that neither company was acting responsibly.
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