Samuel Marks

Artificial intelligence researcher at Anthropic who leads its Cognitive Oversight team and studies the internal behavior of language models.

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Frontier AI Safety and Governance1 sourced eventDates: September 9, 2026

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September 9, 2026Mixed or conditional

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Samuel Marks said robust AI alignment remains unsolved, competitive incentives contribute to continued development, and many frontier-lab staff want a slowdown to improve safety.

““Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely.””

Speaker capacity: Anthropic safety researcher, explicitly writing in a personal capacity.
Editorial rationale: His personal-capacity statement supports the central criticism but presents continued safety work as a conditional rationale for remaining at Anthropic.

Samuel Marks says Coxon’s thread is worth reading and describes unresolved AI alignment risks (opens in a new tab)X post, personal capacity disclaimer

View context Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?

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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.