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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher, said he quit Anthropic and described a "mini Manhattan project" inside the company, telling WIRED that AI labs have only a few years left to make their systems safe. Coxon framed the moment as "crunch time for humanity" and pointed to problems with alignment work at the lab.

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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
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By Maxwell ZeffSource:

Wired AI Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside

Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe. Get AI news in your inbox

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source & further reading
machinebrief.com — original article AutoLexSteer: Automatic Contrast Construction for Lexical Activation Steering Typed Federated Artifacts for the Agentic Web:Sharing Tool-Routing Knowledge Across Frozen,Heterogeneous LLM Agents DrugReason: Dynamic Multi-View Reasoning over Knowledge Graph and Language Evidence for Drug Repurposing
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