Artificial Intelligence: Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs 'gambling with our lives'

Latest departure highlights mounting unease inside Silicon Valley companies racing to build ever more powerful systems

10. September 2026 um 18:00 Uhr / Von Tom Wilson, Financial Times

This photograph shows a smartphone displaying the logo of the US artificial intelligence safety and research company Anthropic, in Mulhouse on April 21, 2026. Bild: Sebastien Bozon / AFP via Getty Images

An Anthropic researcher has resigned from the AI lab, warning that the unchecked race to build self-improving superintelligence could destroy humanity by the end of the decade.

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old British researcher at the San Francisco-based company, said Anthropic and its main competitor, OpenAI, were "gambling" with the future of humankind.