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Jacob Coxon Resigns, Warns Anthropic Risks Lives

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  • Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, warning the lab and others are gambling with our lives.
  • His September 10 X post amassed 171 million views, making him a viral AI alarmist.
  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged frontier AI firms to pause development to avoid unknowable existential risk on September 12.
  • Anthropic posted a policy-design manager role on September 14 to set limits on Claude’s use in conventional weapons.