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Why an AI Researcher Just Quit, Warning “AI Could Kill Us All” Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher at Anthropic, resigned in September 2026 after publicly warning that AI companies “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” His claims were confirmed by Anthropic’s own Alignment Science lead, who stated … Read more
Who Is Jacob Coxon? Jacob Coxon is a 27-year-old British AI researcher who resigned from Anthropic in September 2026, warning that the companies building advanced artificial intelligence “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” He spent three years conducting pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic before leaving … Read more
What Is the Risk of Autonomous Weapons? The core risk of autonomous weapons is the removal of meaningful human control over the use of lethal force. Machines that select and kill targets without human authorization risk violating international humanitarian law, escalating conflicts through machine-speed miscalculation, evading accountability for unlawful killings, and lowering the threshold for … Read more