Ex Anthropic Employee: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”
"AI will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. It could kill us all by the end of the decade."
— Jacob Coxon, Ex Anthropic Employee pic.twitter.com/3HHiQspSOf
— 🚨Indian Gems (@IndianGems_) September 9, 2026
Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.
— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026
Accepting this race and entering the “endgame” is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company’s Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available.
— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026
If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because “it’s happening anyway” – or take this moment…
— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026
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