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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Friday, September 11, 2026

Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Existential Risk Fears

Jacob Coxin, an AI researcher formerly at OpenAI and most recently at Anthropic, resigned citing fears that AI could lead to human extinction by the end of the decade. He posted his concerns on X, which went viral, attracting significant attention and sparking debate about AI safety and regulation.

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the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.
neither Open AI nor Anthropic, ostensibly, is acting responsibly. They're not acting responsibly, Sax.
they are racing straight to self-improving super intelligence and gambling. Gambling with our lives.
Heard on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg — “AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI's Math Breakthrough, Nike's $200B Collapse, published Friday, September 11, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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