Anthropic insider quits, warning the AI race risks humanity

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Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI staffer who recently joined Anthropic, resigns and argues that both labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence with little transparency about safety, risking humanity; his concerns are echoed by a current Anthropic employee, and the move comes amid a broader pattern of safety researchers leaving OpenAI and Anthropic as incidents and evolving safety commitments surface in the AI race.
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