Condemned
““Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.””
Coxon resigned and argued that Anthropic’s participation in the race is irresponsible even though the company understands the risks.
- Speaker
- Jacob Coxon
- Capacity
- Former Anthropic pretraining researcher
- Observed
- September 9, 2026
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
- Targets
- Anthropic
- Classification rationale
- He directly characterizes the company’s conduct as irresponsible and calls for a different, coordinated trajectory.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Coxon had worked on pretraining research at Anthropic and OpenAI and announced his resignation in the same thread.
After the quotation
He called for coordination and said a temporary pause on capability improvements might be necessary.
Evidence
Complete source record
Jacob Coxon resigns from Anthropic and criticizes the frontier AI race (opens in a new tab)Seven-post X thread
Primary record of Coxon’s resignation statement. He argues that Anthropic understands the stakes but is structurally locked into a race, and calls for coordination that could include a temporary capability pause.