AI Researcher Resigns, Warns Superintelligent AI Could Kill Humanity by 2030

Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher, resigned and publicly warned that leading AI labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligent systems despite privately believing the technology could cause human extinction within a decade. Anthropic researchers Evan Hubinger and Samuel Marks corroborated the claim, saying commercial competition is outpacing safety alignment, even as lawmakers propose legislation to pause or ban superintelligence research. The episode reflects a widening gap between rapidly advancing human capability and any settled limit on what mankind should build, deepening unease that technology is outrunning humanity's capacity to govern its own creation.