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Artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday to discuss his recent resignation from AI developer Anthropic, an exit that drew widespread public attention after his online announcement garnered over 160 million views.
A colleague at Anthropic responded by saying the company has no plan to address alignment risks from superintelligence
Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon on Sunday called for Congress to allow the nation’s leading frontier AI labs to regulate themselves while lawmakers come up with a long-term regulatory framework for slowing the pace of AI development.
Jacob Coxon, a former safety researcher for Anthropic and OpenAI, applauded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls for a slowdown in artificial intelligence development.
"So these AIs are getting smarter, very, very quickly. And in particular, in the next six months to a year, I expect the capabilities of our AI systems to be quite scary."
The development of AI "doesn't look that different from say, 'Terminator,' or from science fiction films," Jacob Coxon said.
Days after he resigned from Anthropic, former AI researcher Jacob Coxon said Sunday there is “not enough time” for employees to consider the risks of the technology they are working on. During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,
Anthropic researcher quits, warning future AI could wipe out humanity, with senior colleagues publicly backing concerns.
Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher, quit Anthropic and warned AI could kill humanity. Here's who he is and why his warning matters.
Jacob Coxon is a 27-year-old British AI researcher who formerly worked for OpenAI and Anthropic, the companies behind ChatGPT and Claude.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who raised alarm about OpenAI and Anthropic, has quit, warning that AI labs are 'gambling with our lives'. Coxon, 27, declared his departure in a series of X posts, saying both Anthropic and its rival OpenAI are failing to act responsibly as they race to build advanced AI systems.
He went from obscure AI researcher to notable independent AI critic literally overnight.