Who is Jacob Coxon? Anthropic Researcher Quits, Warns AI Could Kill Everyone
He was a member of OpenAI technical staff from 2023 to 2026 and worked on the GPT-4o model, Business Insider reported.According to the Wall Street Journal, Coxon joined Anthropic to pretrain its family of AI models earlier in 2026, after leaving OpenAI, drawn in part by Anthropic's reputation for AI safety research. View 0 CommentsRequest Reprint & LicensingSubmit CorrectionView Editorial & AI Guidelines
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By Amanda GreenwoodAssociate News Editor0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.AI researcher Jacob Coxon has resigned from the AI company Anthropic (makers of ChatGPT rival Claude, with a notoriously high focus on safety and alignment), warning that the race to develop increasingly powerful AI systems could pose an existential threat to humanity.View this post on XIn a series of posts published on X late Tuesday night, Coxon, who said he spent the past three years working on AI pretraining research at both Anthropic and OpenAI, accused leading AI firms of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."Read More on NewsCoxon…
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