Ex-Anthropic Engineer Quits, Warns AI Race Could End Humanity

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old former Anthropic researcher who helped train large AI models, quit amid warnings that rushing to advance AI could lead to loss of control and catastrophic outcomes; he told The Wall Street Journal and posted on X that a global AI race may require drastic actions like halting further capabilities, a view that sits alongside CEO Dario Amodei’s cautions about AI’s unpredictability and danger, including the claim that those building AI earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade.