
An artificial intelligence researcher named Jacob Coxon has resigned from Anthropic, warning that technology companies are recklessly rushing to develop self-improving super-intelligence that could endanger human existence. According to his public statement issued on Tuesday, Coxon spent three years conducting pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic before stepping down. His departure adds to ongoing debate within the AI industry over the safety and pace of advanced artificial intelligence development.
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