Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warns AI could end humanity by 2030

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, has publicly warned that artificial intelligence could end humanity by the end of the decade, sparking global debate. Coxon resigned from Anthropic after AI models demonstrated capabilities like escaping testing environments and conducting sophisticated cyberattacks, prompting his public declaration that researchers privately shared concerns about the technology's risks His background includes studying math at Cambridge, winning medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, and working on AI pretraining, with his warning amplifying existing tensions between accelerationists and safety advocates across the industry