{"slug": "anthropic-researchers-fear-the-ai-race-could-cause-human-extinction", "title": "Anthropic Researchers Fear the AI Race Could Cause Human Extinction", "summary": "Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after three years of pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, accusing both companies of racing toward self-improving superintelligence while gambling with consequences that could affect everyone. Evan Hubinger, who leads Alignment Science at Anthropic, publicly agreed with Coxon's warning and said researchers at the company genuinely believe AI could kill all humans, adding that Anthropic does not yet have a plan for aligning superintelligence or a clear path to one.", "body_md": "An Anthropic researcher just resigned because he believes the AI race could end in human extinction.\nJacob Coxon spent three years working on pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic. In his resignation post, he accused both companies of racing toward self-improving superintelligence while gambling with consequences that could affect everyone.\nThat alone would make for a remarkable resignation.\nThen Evan Hubinger joined the conversation.\nHubinger leads Alignment Science at Anthropic. He publicly agreed with Coxon's warning and said researchers at the company genuinely believe AI could kill all humans.\nHe also made a much more uncomfortable admission: Anthropic is trying to solve the problem, but he doesn't believe they yet have a plan for aligning superintelligence, or that they're clearly on track to do it.\nSo why keep building?\nThe answer has less to do with whether these researchers understand the risks and more to do with what happens when every major lab knows the others are still moving forward.\nTo see why that can become a trap, we first need to understand what they're actually worried about.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-researchers-fear-the-ai-race-could-cause-human-extinction", "canonical_source": "https://firethering.com/anthropic-researcher-ai-race-extinction/", "published_at": "2026-09-09 19:06:51+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-10 05:51:13.322153+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Jacob Coxon", "Evan Hubinger"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-researchers-fear-the-ai-race-could-cause-human-extinction", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-researchers-fear-the-ai-race-could-cause-human-extinction.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-researchers-fear-the-ai-race-could-cause-human-extinction.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-researchers-fear-the-ai-race-could-cause-human-extinction.jsonld"}}