The A.I. Researcher Whose Rebellion Is Changing Everything

那位颠覆一切的AI研究员

The Daily

2026-09-14

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In recent days, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, quit his job and posted warnings about the risks of the technology. That kicked off a crisis that culminated in a call by prominent leaders of the industry to slow down A.I. development. He spoke to “The Daily” about this moment. Guest: Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic. Background reading:  Anthropic researchers have raised alarms over the acceleration of A.I.Inside the snowballing conversations at A.I. companies about a doomsday.Top A.I. leaders have called for slowing down A.I. development.Photo: Lucas Foglia for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • Can you just read the third post from your thread?

  • The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.

  • This is not a marketing stunt.

  • If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible,

  • but I hear the same people express fear privately.

  • No other human activity poses this level of danger.

  • From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow-Eff.

  • This is The Daily.

  • A dire warning about AI and humanity from a former anthropic researcher who suddenly resigned.

  • Over the last week, a young AI researcher quit anthropic and posted

  • warnings about the risks of artificial intelligence that went viral.

  • I want to better understand what you mean when you say AI could kill us all.

  • I mean, how likely is...

  • This doomsday scenario that you've presented.

  • And he's not the only one to sound the alarm.

  • And kicked off a crisis that culminated this weekend in a call to action by the most prominent leaders in the industry.

  • We begin with the stunning news from Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei

  • that he is urging a slowdown when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence.

  • It was a pronouncement that his chief competitor, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk quickly agreed with.

  • Those leaders.