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A 27-year-old AI researcher, Jacob Coxon, walked away from Anthropic after a three-year stint. Not quietly. Not with a bland "pursuing other opportunities" LinkedIn post. He went straight to X and lit a match.

"I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote. "I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."

That was just the opening line. Coxon didn't stop there. In a thread that quickly went viral, he made a claim that should stop anyone scrolling mid-swipe:

"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible -- but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."

He wasn't done. Coxon described what's coming next in blunt terms: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionise any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."