Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker calls for immediate action on AI after Coxon's resignation
JB PritzkerGovernor of Illinois, posting on the official governor's X account
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said on X that it is time to sound the alarm louder on reining in artificial intelligence, that the threat AI poses to humanity is becoming clearer, and that he is calling for immediate action from the industry and Washington.
“It's time to sound the alarm - louder - on reining in Artificial Intelligence. It's becoming more clear the threat AI poses to humanity, so I'm calling for immediate action from the industry and Washington.”
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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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Post on the Illinois governor's official X account, published September 9, 2026, that quotes Jacob Coxon's resignation post.
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NBC Chicago report, published September 10, 2026, on Pritzker's post and the Coxon resignation that prompted it.
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Pritzker posted his message as a quotation of Jacob Coxon's resignation post, in which Coxon said he had resigned from Anthropic and that neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is acting responsibly.
After the quotation
NBC Chicago reported that Pritzker's message was issued in response to Coxon's post, and that Coxon's posts reached more than 100 million people overnight. The same report says Senator Bernie Sanders agreed with Coxon's concerns and said he would soon introduce legislation to pause AI development and ban superintelligence.
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Pritzker posted this as a quotation of Coxon's resignation post, in which Coxon said neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is acting responsibly. Pritzker's own words say the threat AI poses to humanity is becoming clearer and call for immediate action from the industry and Washington. His post names neither company; we read it as backing Coxon's alarm about the industry's course, so we labeled it Condemned.
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