Another AI researcher quits, claims companies racing to build machines smarter than any human

Joe Benton, who in his social media profile describes himself as having previously managed Scalable Oversight team at AI tech giant Anthropic, has flagged AI safety alleging that companies were in a race to build superintelligent machines.

Benton’s claims follow the recent revelation by another Anthropic executive Jacob Coxon who had alleged that he had resigned from the tech giant due to similar reason.

Coxon, who had worked on AI pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation this week, saying the leading AI companies were not acting responsibly and were racing towards self-improving superintelligence. He warned that the technology could pose an existential threat if developed without adequate safeguards.