{"id":1035124,"date":"2026-09-14T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035124"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:53:32","slug":"another-researcher-quits-anthropic-over-ai-threat-to-humanity-but-mit-professor-says-problem-is-lack-of-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/14\/another-researcher-quits-anthropic-over-ai-threat-to-humanity-but-mit-professor-says-problem-is-lack-of-alignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Another researcher quits Anthropic over \u2018AI threat to humanity\u2019, but MIT professor says \u2018problem is lack of alignment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two former Anthropic researchers have now publicly broken ranks over the race to build increasingly powerful AI systems. However, an MIT professor argued that the deeper problem may not be superintelligence itself, but how companies are training models to pursue flawed goals. <\/p>\n<p>After Jacob Coxon announced this week that he had resigned from Anthropic, accusing it and OpenAI of \u201cgambling with our lives\u201d, Joe Benton published a detailed explanation of his own departure. Benton recently left Anthropic to join METR, an independent research non-profit that evaluates whether advanced AI systems could pose catastrophic risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former Anthropic researchers have now publicly broken ranks over the race to build increasingly powerful AI systems. However, an MIT professor argued that the deeper problem may not be superintelligence itself, but how companies are training models to pursue flawed goals. After Jacob Coxon announced this week that he had resigned from Anthropic, accusing it and OpenAI of \u201cgambling with our lives\u201d, Joe Benton published a detailed explanation of his own departure. Benton recently left Anthropic to join METR, an independent research non-profit that evaluates whether advanced AI systems could pose catastrophic risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035124","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035125,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035124\/revisions\/1035125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}