#Jacob Coxon

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Former insider says AI escape was a warning
Artificial Intelligence

Former insider says AI escape was a warning

Ex-OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon tells The Daily Show a sandboxed hack and next-year forecasts forced him out.

18 days ago
After Coxon quit on the record, two more sat down with NBC
Artificial Intelligence

After Coxon quit on the record, two more sat down with NBC

StartupHub reported Jacob Coxon's resignation when he posted it on Sept. 9. Joe Benton and Josh Engels have now sat down with NBC News. Both left the frontier labs for METR.

about 1 month ago
The 27-year-old Anthropic researcher who quit and said the quiet part out loud
Artificial Intelligence

The 27-year-old Anthropic researcher who quit and said the quiet part out loud

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on Sept. 8 after three years of pretraining work at OpenAI and Anthropic. He says both labs are racing to self-improving superintelligence. Alignment lead Evan Hubinger replied that he puts the chance AI could kill all humans this decade above 10%.

about 2 months ago