The Artificial Intelligence Show · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, resigned and publicly warned that both Anthropic and OpenAI are rapidly developing AI systems that may become uncontrollable. He cited concerns about the speed of AI capability advancements outstripping safety measures and called for government intervention or an industry slowdown.
“He warned that both Anthropic and his former employer, OpenAI, he used to be there as well as a researcher. He warned that both are racing towards AI systems they may not be able to control.”
“Coxon said he spent the past three years doing pre-training research at the two companies, and this, of course, is the work that trains new models from large amounts of data.”
“In his resignation post on X, which has over 167 million views as of this weekend, probably higher now. He accused both labs of gambling with our lives.”
“but he now believes no company can responsibly develop broadly super-human AI without government intervention or a coordinated industry slowdown.”