AI researcher claims he resigned from Anthropic over threat to the human race. His post is going viral

Social media debate is growing over an X post from a former employee of Anthropic and OpenAI, who thinks the tech could kill all humans within the decade—and other AI workers agree. Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who claims to have worked for both Anthropic and OpenAI over the past three years, went viral for sharing why he resigned from Anthropic. According to Coxon, both OpenAI and Anthropic are acting irresponsibly and “are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” His post has amassed nearly 79 million views on X. I resigned from Anthropic today. 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.— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026 Coxon wrote that at its current trajectory, AI will soon create “superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources,” all of which it could do to the detriment of the human race. “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the e…