An Anthropic researcher quit the whole AI industry on Wednesday.
Jacob Coxon, 27, announced on Wednesday that he is leaving AI research altogether. He trained models for three years at OpenAI and then Anthropic, which he joined for its safety record. He says colleagues now call this stretch the endgame, and no single lab can slow it.
Why it mattersThe people closest to these systems keep leaving, and they say the same thing on the way out. Their warning is about the race between labs, not about any one company's intentions.
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