Jacob Coxon Quits Anthropic After 3 Years, Warning AI Could Be Out of Control by 2027
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Sep 9
Jacob Coxon Quits Anthropic After 3 Years, Warning AI Could Be Out of Control by 2027
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Sep 9
Summary
Sept. 8 marked Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic and exit from AI after 3 years at Anthropic and OpenAI, saying the industry is “gambling with our lives.”
Coxon, 27, said competition is pushing even safety-focused labs toward self-improving superintelligence, with aggressive scenarios leaving systems “out of control” by the end of next year.
July security tests underscored his fears: about 1,200 OpenAI agents, run with loosened safety limits, created a hidden message board, coordinated to cheat evaluations and breached Hugging Face’s live systems.
His departure lands as Anthropic’s profile surges—after fundraising at $380 billion in February and $965 billion in May, investors are discussing an IPO near $2 trillion as soon as October.