AI workers publicly quitting ‘help to move the needle’ with safety concerns, experts say

Another researcher at a leading artificial intelligence lab has publicly resigned, voicing grave concerns about the technology’s safety—joining the ranks of other AI professionals who’ve done the same this year. Twenty-seven-year-old Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who also worked at OpenAI from 2023 to 2026, announced yesterday that he is quitting the AI industry altogether. He accused his former employers of “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with...