AI could kill us, Anthropic researcher says after resigning

Image credit: Tara Winstead via Pexels. Article by Omkar Godbole. CoinDesk – updated September 9, 2026.

An Anthropic researcher resigned Tuesday and the reason he cited sounds straight out of James Cameron’s 1984 hit movie “The Terminator.” Jacob Coxon, who spent three years working on pretraining at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned Tuesday and explained his decision on X. “I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining 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,” he said. […]

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