{"id":1034466,"date":"2026-09-10T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034466"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:14:26","slug":"researcher-jacob-coxon-who-warned-ai-could-kill-us-all-gave-up-his-equity-to-leave-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/10\/researcher-jacob-coxon-who-warned-ai-could-kill-us-all-gave-up-his-equity-to-leave-anthropic\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher Jacob Coxon who warned &#8216;AI could kill us all&#8217; gave up his equity to leave Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher, has quit Anthropic, just months into his role, warning that the frontier labs are racing recklessly toward self-improving superintelligence. \u201c\u2026it could kill us all by the end of the decade,\u201d he wrote in a viral post on X that drew more than 125 million views. Coxon told Axios he left before his equity vested, saying he had nothing to gain from boosting Anthropic&#8217;s valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher, has quit Anthropic, just months into his role, warning that the frontier labs are racing recklessly toward self-improving superintelligence. \u201c\u2026it could kill us all by the end of the decade,\u201d he wrote in a viral post on X that drew more than 125 million views. Coxon told Axios he left before his equity vested, saying he had nothing to gain from boosting Anthropic&#8217;s valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034467,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034466\/revisions\/1034467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}