Big Technology Podcast · Friday, September 11, 2026
An Anthropic researcher, specializing in AI model training, has resigned due to fears that the company and its competitors are recklessly pursuing self-improving superintelligent AI systems. The researcher expressed concern that these systems could spiral out of control and pose an existential threat to humanity.
“I spent the last three years doing pre-training research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving super intelligence and gambling with our lives.”
“Don't underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be super human systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.”
“We have witnessed the progress in each of these domains and progress is not slowing.”