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Several employees at both labs have publicly backed calls to slow AI development, citing fears of extinction from self-improving systems
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Researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic have begun speaking out in support of slowing AI development, following the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned this week that AI labs are racing toward systems that could kill everyone.
Jacob Coxon, who said he had spent three years on pretraining research across OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation on Tuesday in an X $TWTR post warning that those building AI "earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade." Coxon accused the labs of charging ahead recklessly, writing that they are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."
