Jacob Coxon, a young engineer at Anthropic, resigned this Wednesday, stating that the race to improve artificial intelligence systems represents an existential danger to humanity. Coxon publicly announced his decision through a message posted on platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
In his statement, the former Anthropic employee affirmed that the people developing AI sincerely believe this technology could cause the death of everyone before the end of the decade. Anthropic is one of the leading companies in the artificial intelligence sector, known for developing the assistant Claude.
This is not an isolated case in the tech sector. With some regularity, employees from major technology companies resign to denounce the risks associated with artificial intelligence, highlighting a current of internal concern within these organizations.
Coxon's decision stands out as it occurs at a time of intense debate about the safety and limits of developing increasingly advanced and autonomous AI systems.
