The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
10-09-2026 00:11 via wired.com

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
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