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AI’s existential crisis explodes but AI companies plunge ahead anyway
The resignation this week of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon over concerns that artificial intelligence labs are “gambling with our lives” lit up the long-smoldering argument about whether AI is head
The resignation this week of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon over concerns that artificial intelligence labs are “gambling with our lives” lit up the long-smoldering argument about whether AI is heading in a direction hazardous to human life. Not only is he not alone at Anthropic — whose alignment science lead agreed with the possibility that […] The post AI’s existential crisis explodes but AI companies plunge ahead anyway appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
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Source: SiliconANGLE | 2026-09-11