Role at the time: Public post on Sriram Krishnan's individual account; the post does not identify itself as a formal government or institutional statement.
Challenged the characterization
Statement summary
Krishnan says frontier researchers he has encountered sincerely believe their warnings, while challenging the idea that one company or school of thought should represent the entire industry. He calls for perspectives from open-model developers, cybersecurity practitioners, and chipmakers.
“I find them to be intellectually honest in terms of believing what they say.”
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.