[Anthropic Researcher Resigns: OpenAI and Anthropic Are 'Betting Lives,' AI Could Spiral Out of Control Next Year] Beating AI Newsflash: Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has announced his resignation and plans to leave the AI industry. Over the past three years, he worked on pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. He pointed out that neither company is responsibly advancing AI and both are racing to develop superintelligent systems capable of continuously enhancing their own abilities, essentially 'betting our lives.' Earlier this year, Coxon switched from OpenAI to Anthropic because the latter placed greater emphasis on model safety. While he acknowledged that Anthropic's safety efforts are serious, he believes that as long as companies are competing to be the first to create AGI (Artificial General Intelligence capable of surpassing humans in a wide range of tasks), compromises on safety are inevitable, and self-regulation by a single company cannot solve the problem. His assessment of the two companies is as follows: many people within OpenAI have yet to fully grasp the magnitude of the risks involved; Anthropic is aware of the risks but believes others cannot be trusted, so they feel compelled to develop AGI themselves. Coxon stated that some AI practitioners are privately far more pessimistic than their public statements suggest, with some even fearing that AI could destroy humanity before the end of this decade. In his own judgment, in the most extreme scenario, AI could spiral out of control by the end of next year, and such decisions should not be left solely to the engineers within a few companies. [Original Link]