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Ars Technica reports a pretraining researcher publicly raising severe AI-risk concerns, but this single case does not establish the claim’s broad comparative or causal wording. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could “kill us all” · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:baa241898f73043947d657b5495c47e4da3a95493557f5369a838bd7131281f0

AI researcher Jacob Coxon is using his departure from Anthropic to publicly warn that frontier AI companies are “gambling with our lives” with systems that they “earnestly believe… could kill us all by the end of the decade.” ... Coxon said he spent three years conducting pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic.