EventPolicySeptember 11, 2026

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's exit sparks AI extinction debate

Coxon, who spent three years on pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic, quit warning the labs are "gambling with our lives" and racing to superintelligence. His note triggered a preference cascade: OpenAI and Google staff publicly confirmed extinction concerns, while Brad Gerstner and Amjad Masad pushed back.

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