Anthropic Resignation Triggers Urgent Alarm Over AI Safety Crunch

AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigns from Anthropic and tells WIRED that the next year or two will be crunch time for humanity, citing alignment challenges, the Hugging Face hack, and rapid industry growth as reasons for urgent action. He calls for coordinated international pacing and regulatory oversight, potentially involving independent auditing, while noting Anthropic is more cautious than OpenAI but under pressure to stay competitive in a high‑stakes race.