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Jacob Coxon Warns AI Extinction as He Resigns Anthropic

By Drooid · Sep 15, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

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Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 9, 2026, warning AI could kill humanity.
Coxon’s X post received over 156 million views and 752,000 likes.
He estimated a greater than 10 % chance AI will cause human extinction by decade’s end.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a three-point essay urging an industry-wide slowdown.
Investors and Chamath Palihapitiya fear the resignation could jeopardize Anthropic’s $2.3 trillion IPO.

History

Historical Context

In May 1997, during a six-game rematch in New York City, IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer, designed by Feng-hsiung Hsu, defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov 3½–2½, marking the first match win by a machine under standard time controls. The milestone proved that specialized hardware could outcompute human expertise, igniting debate over AI limits and later prompting safety-focused research programs.

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Story summary

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 9, 2026, warning AI could kill humanity.
Coxon’s X post received over 156 million views and 752,000 likes.
He estimated a greater than 10 % chance AI will cause human extinction by decade’s end.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a three-point essay urging an industry-wide slowdown.
Investors and Chamath Palihapitiya fear the resignation could jeopardize Anthropic’s $2.3 trillion IPO.

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