{"id":86290,"date":"2026-09-09T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86290"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:00:40","slug":"anthropic-researcher-quits-warns-a-i-may-get-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/anthropic-researcher-quits-warns-a-i-may-get-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic Researcher Quits, Warns A.I. May Get Out Of Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Wall Street Journal:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1hwu21o0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won\u2019t be able to control, a sign of\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/openai-anthropic-rogue-ai-models-20b6bb3c?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\">mounting safety concerns<\/a> within top AI companies.\u00a0Jacob Coxon, a researcher who specializes in training new AI models by having them consume vast amounts of data, said Tuesday that he is leaving the company because he doesn\u2019t want to participate in an industrywide rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves, worried such systems could\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/openai-chatbot-biological-weapons-poison-3d808e6c?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\">spiral out of control<\/a>\u00a0and destroy humanity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall css-1u1nl00-PaywalledContentContainer e1qcjy9n0\">\n<p class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1hwu21o0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">The 27-year old Brit, who previously studied mathematics, said many of his industry colleagues now use phrases like \u201ccrunchtime\u201d and \u201cendgame\u201d to describe the trajectory toward self-improving models.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal: An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86291,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86290\/revisions\/86291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}