Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley
They are "gambling with our lives", he said, "these will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything".Coxon is by no means the first AI insider to publicly sound the alarm. There have been a string of high-profile resignations from both Anthropic and OpenAI in recent years over apparent safety concerns, and some current Anthropic employees even echoed Coxon's post."We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! They said he dismissed them as untrue.Huang has previously said the notion that AI "is going to be the end of humanity" is "complete nonsense".
- ▪They are "gambling with our lives", he said, "these will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything".Coxon is by no means the first AI insider to publicly sound the alarm.
- ▪There have been a string of high-profile resignations from both Anthropic and OpenAI in recent years over apparent safety concerns, and some current Anthropic employees even echoed Coxon's post."We really do earnestly believe AI could kill
- ▪They said he dismissed them as untrue.Huang has previously said the notion that AI "is going to be the end of humanity" is "complete nonsense".
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Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon ValleyImage source, ReutersByLily JamaliNorth America technology correspondent, Reporting fromin San FranciscoPublished12 September 2026Each September, a who's who of executives from across Silicon Valley descends on San Francisco's Palace Hotel to charm investors at a conference hosted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs.This past week, between talk of growth and potential returns, tech titans found themselves addressing the abrupt resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon.Coxon, a 27-year-old who worked at OpenAI before joining its chief rival Anthropic, said on Tuesday that people building artificial intelligence (AI) believed the technology could destroy humanity.
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