Jacob Coxon, who just quit Anthropic, says that soon there will be systems that can hack anything.
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A former researcher from Anthropic who left the company over concerns the technology is wagering with human life, says there is hope that we can avoid the chance it could destroy humanity within the next decade, according to a story by CNN.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
That candid disclosure from Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee, raised alarms Tuesday, as the 27-year-old AI researcher admitted on his way out the door in a resignation thread on X.
Though not new, Coxon’s revelation such as “these will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources”, are alarming. Anthropic got its start in exactly this way, as OpenAI employees concerned about the company’s safety protocols left Sam Altman’s startup to launch their own AI company, contending their way of work was more responsible.
Coxon’s post came after a more senior Anthropic employee, Evan Hubinger, commented that Coxon was correct.
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” Hubinger posted on X. He added that he “personally believes the chance is under 10% over the next decade, and despite Anthropic’s good intentions it doesn’t have a plan to avoid so-called superintelligence that could exceed humans’ ability to control AI. Superintelligence, a state at which AI surpasses human capabilities, is a widely debated theoretical milestone with no benchmark that some AI researchers believe has already been achieved and others believe will never come,” according to the CNN story.
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after three years of pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, saying neither company is acting responsibly Deadline
— Ruben (@rdominguezibar) September 11, 2026
he left the industry entirely https://t.co/qgt8ticvCt pic.twitter.com/eTZVRtYJqi
“To be clear, as we say in our latest Risk Report, I think the risk from present models is low,” Hubinger added.
“What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought.”
Coxon said he concurs with Hubinger that right now, the threat is “minimal” from artificial intelligence’s actual takeover.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026
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