Role at the time: British member of Parliament; public statement on his own account.
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Jones treats the asserted risk conditionally and calls for international regulation while opposing a halt to innovation. In a follow-up he advocates a multinational treaty for safe development rather than a ban on scientific work.
“We shouldn’t stop innovation but we do need to do it in a regulated, safety first way.”
After leaving Anthropic, Jacob Coxon said Anthropic and OpenAI were irresponsibly racing toward self-improving superintelligence, while praising Anthropic's current practices. Responses dispute catastrophic-risk forecasts, working inside AI labs, and whether governments should pause or regulate development.