{"slug": "fearing-rogue-ai-may-kill-humans-in-near-future-researcher-quits-anthropic", "title": "Fearing rogue AI may kill humans in near future, researcher quits Anthropic", "summary": "AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 9, 2026, saying he spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic and that \"neither company is acting responsibly\" as they race toward self-improving superintelligence. Senator Bernie Sanders responded the same day that he will soon introduce legislation to ban superintelligence and pause AI development, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called for immediate action from the industry and Washington.", "body_md": "In one line\n\nAn AI researcher quit Anthropic over fears that unchecked AI development could lead to human extinction.\n\nI 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 superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.\n\n— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess)[September 9, 2026](https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nMr. Coxon is right.\n\nThe very people building this technology admit that it could threaten the future of humanity.\n\nThat is why I will soon be introducing legislation to ban superintelligence and pause AI development. [https://t.co/oRmlNTqag6](https://t.co/oRmlNTqag6)\n\n[September 9, 2026](https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/2097705093520863568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nIt's time to sound the alarm - louder - on reining in Artificial Intelligence.\n\nIt's becoming more clear the threat AI poses to humanity, so I'm calling for immediate action from the industry and Washington. [https://t.co/QMZ6IVlDOb](https://t.co/QMZ6IVlDOb)\n\n[September 9, 2026](https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/2097715871309312220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fearing-rogue-ai-may-kill-humans-in-near-future-researcher-quits-anthropic", "canonical_source": "https://www.deccanherald.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/fearing-rogue-ai-may-kill-humans-in-near-future-researcher-quits-anthropic-4141700", "published_at": "2026-09-10 11:13:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-10 11:31:05.842621+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Jacob Coxon", "Bernie Sanders", "JB Pritzker"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fearing-rogue-ai-may-kill-humans-in-near-future-researcher-quits-anthropic", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fearing-rogue-ai-may-kill-humans-in-near-future-researcher-quits-anthropic.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fearing-rogue-ai-may-kill-humans-in-near-future-researcher-quits-anthropic.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fearing-rogue-ai-may-kill-humans-in-near-future-researcher-quits-anthropic.jsonld"}}