Jason Wolfe calls AI development pace terrifying, urges coordination
Jason WolfeMember of Technical Staff at OpenAI working on alignment and model behavior, according to his MATS mentor biography; personal account, no claimed institutional authority in the post.
Responding to Hubinger's Coxon-related warning, Wolfe calls the pace of AI development terrifying and urges urgent coordination between companies and countries. He also praises costly recent actions by OpenAI and does not supply an extinction probability.
“We need coordination to be able to approach future capability increases with an appropriate degree of caution and humility, and we need it yesterday.”
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Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and said that Anthropic and OpenAI are acting irresponsibly by racing toward self-improving superintelligence. In a fuller interview, he praised Anthropic's current practices and denied that it was already cutting corners; his criticism concerns the competitive race and the pressures he expects it to create. Responses dispute the evidence and timing of catastrophic-risk forecasts, whether continued work inside AI labs can be justified, and whether governments should pause development or regulate its continuation. The record distinguishes these disagreements from arguments about the rhetoric of public warnings.
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Full primary public post and available surrounding thread. Related context: https://www.matsprogram.org/mentor/wolfe https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126 Speaker and position scope are explained in the linked event.
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Wolfe says he does not know his probability for literal extinction but sees multiple ways AI could go poorly. The included quoted post is Hubinger's acknowledgement of risk and partial defense of Anthropic.
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Wolfe says he is heartened by costly actions OpenAI has recently taken, but argues that no single company or country can solve the problem alone.
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Why this label?
Supports urgent coordination while crediting OpenAI's recent precautions.
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The Dispute Index. "Jason Wolfe calls AI development pace terrifying, urges coordination". First published: 2026-09-10. Last updated: 2026-09-30. https://disputeindex.com/events/237-responding-to-hubinger-s-coxon-related-warning-wolfe