Anthropic researcher quits, warns AI could cause extinction by 2030
X-Risk Daily
Thursday 10 September 2026
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Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who spent three years in pretraining research at OpenAI and then Anthropic, announced his resignation from Anthropic on Tuesday, 8 September 2026, in a multi-part thread on X.
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