A string of posts on X from an AI researcher who says he quit a job at Anthropic over ethical concerns has gone viral, prompting thousands of responses and reigniting debate over the potential future dangers of artificial intelligence.
Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who also worked at OpenAI on pretraining AI models, resigned from Anthropic over concerns that AI development could lead to human extinction. “Neither company is acting responsibly,” he wrote. “They are racing to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Superintelligence refers to a hypothetical scenario in which AI’s “cognitive” abilities vastly exceed those…
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