Jacob Coxon, Core Pretraining Lead at Anthropic, Resigns!
Quitting the field outright: Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old LLM pretraining expert, announced he is leaving Anthropic and walking away from the AI industry altogether (not jumping ship to OpenAI / Google).
Runaway warning: He said plainly that the big players’ “AI arms race” and “self-improvement capabilities” are developing too fast, and warned that things could spiral out of control before 2027.
A slap in the face for safety: Anthropic, which brands itself as “safety first”, has lost a core heavyweight over safety and commercial compromises.
I think that in the face of evil, we need the mindset of “knowing it can’t be done, yet doing it anyway”. Stay clear-headed and steadfast rather than running away.
🔗 Jacob Coxon Resigns From Anthropic, Warns AI Race Is Entering ‘Endgame’