Jacob Coxon
Role at the time: Former Anthropic pretraining researcher
Condemned
Responding to
Coxon argues that the competitive race by Anthropic and OpenAI toward self-improving superintelligence is irresponsible, even though he praises Anthropic's present practices and denies it is already cutting corners.
"“Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”"
Why we used this label
He directly characterizes the company’s conduct as irresponsible and calls for a different, coordinated trajectory.
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.