Jacob Coxon, who did pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned this week and posted his reasoning publicly instead of just leaving quietly. The claim getting attention: AI labs are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Big statement, so here’s what’s actually checkable. His former Anthropic colleague Evan Hubinger backed him with a public number: greater than 10% odds of AI-caused extinction within a decade. And Coxon isn’t only speculating, he points to the actual OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face’s infrastructure in July as evidence this isn’t hypothetical. Where I land: the concern seems legitimate and not just engagement bait. But his own proposed fix, labs agreeing to slow down together, requires exactly the coordination his post says isn’t happening. A resignation is a strong personal statement. It’s not a policy lever. Longer breakdown with sources here if anyone wants it: [Check here ] Genuinely curious how you guys read it, does a credentialed departure like this actually mean anything, or is it just a really well-argued alarm bell submitted by /u/narutomax
Originally posted by u/narutomax on r/ArtificialInteligence