Assistant Professor in Robust, Reasoning, and Responsible AI, University of Montreal; Core Academic Member at Mila; founder of Evitable; former UK AI Security Institute co-founder.
Case
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.
Role at the time: Assistant Professor, University of Montreal; Core Academic Member, Mila
Statement summary
David Krueger, an AI safety researcher at the University of Montreal and Mila, wrote in a Guardian op-ed that Dario Amodei's proposed "pacing" plan is inadequate and called instead for "an immediate, indefinite, international moratorium on frontier AI development," including decommissioning advanced AI chips.
“an immediate, indefinite, international moratorium on frontier AI development”
Krueger explicitly rejects Anthropic's proposed pacing approach as inadequate and calls for a moratorium, a direct condemnation of Anthropic's stated approach to advancing toward recursive self-improvement.
Statement dates: September 16, 2026
