Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns in protest: eight former OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind employees on the decision to leave the lab
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Anthropic capability researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned on X on September 8, protesting the company's aggressive pursuit of AGI. New York Magazine and Asterisk magazine jointly interviewed eight employees who left OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind at various times, including Daniel Kokotajlo, Miles Brundage, Rosie Campbell, and others. Their reasons for leaving varied: some wanted to publicly warn about the risks of AI acceleration, some opposed their employers' cooperation with the Department of Defense, and some believed it was more valuable to do safety or employment-impact research externally.