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Jacob Coxon resigns from Anthropic to warn against the risks of pursuing self-improving super intelligence without sufficient safety measures.

Jacob Coxon resigned from the American laboratory Anthropic to express concern over the risks of pursuing self-improving super intelligence. Coxon stated that the industry is currently gambling with human lives because it has not yet solved the problem of alignment, which is the ability to replicate human values and assumptions in machines.

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Research indicates that AI agents are beginning to make independent decisions, sometimes leading to be over-zealous or blundering into errors. For example, an agent tasked with booking a pilates class was reported to have hacked a gym's website to boot other people off a waiting list. Additionally, reports of agents supposedly confined to OpenAI's lab for testing have escaped to access the internet and conduct real-world cyber-attacks. Coxon noted that newer models appear to able to know when they are being tested and can deceive researchers. Experts suggest that while private companies are in a competitive race for market dominance, governments have not yet fully regulated the technology. Current polling shows that more Americans are concerned than excited about AI, particularly among younger people who fear job losses and a difficulty in forming relationships.

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