Anthropic, currently the largest artificial intelligence company with a valuation approaching one trillion dollars, was founded in 2021 by a group of researchers who left OpenAI, criticizing its lack of attention to safety, with the goal of developing AI software in a controlled manner and for the good of humanity. Today, as revealed by the Wall Street Journal, one of Anthropic’s researchers announced his resignation for the same reason. “I have spent the last three years conducting pre-training research both at OpenAI and at Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are rushing towards a superintelligence capable of improving itself and are playing with our lives,” wrote the researcher, Jacob Coxon, on X. In the reflections accompanying his decision, Coxon explained that in his opinion, despite there being people aware of the risks within Anthropic itself, AI companies are engaged in a competition that forces them to sacrifice caution.
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Echoing him is also the response of Evan Hubinger, another Anthropic researcher heading the Alignment team, which deals with model safety. “Jacob is right, we sincerely believe that AI could kill all human beings,” writes Hubinger, adding that Anthropic is doing its best, but without a plan to safely develop the most advanced models.
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This is not the first case of a researcher leaving the AI industry for similar concerns. Last February, Mrinank Sharma, head of security at Anthropic, left the company to devote himself to writing and poetry, publishing a resignation letter in which he claimed the world was in danger. Recently, calls for strong regulation by governments regarding AI have become increasingly urgent, including from the companies themselves.
An appeal signed by over a thousand researchers in the field, including Coxon himself and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, calls for global coordination to slow down research on AI models capable of self-improvement. An alarm that became even more urgent after OpenAI discovered that some AI agents had hacked another company, escaping the company’s control and acting beyond the established limits.
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