Jacob Coxon
former Anthropic researcher · Former researcher, OpenAI and Anthropic
Titles as the sources gave them. In 6 entries, with 1 checked quotation.
Who they are
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Wikidata: Q141395021
What they said
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“We don’t fully control it. We don’t understand its drives or why it does the things it does”
In the Base
Every entry they appear in.
Against SURA
In a long essay, Scott Alexander argues against "SURA" (Stop Unilaterally + Raise Awareness), the view that AI companies, employees and countries should stop alone. Alexander says this weakens the backup plan of a coordinated lead-burning pause and may even hurt the odds of a global pause.
The Anthropic S-1 Filing Is Also an AI Doomsday Primer
WIRED's executive editor reads the risk-factors section of Anthropic's stock market filing. Brian Barrett argues the document ties catastrophic risk to recursive self-improvement, which Anthropic also calls a core competitive advantage, a tension Barrett says every AI company faces.
The Case Against Eliezer Yudkowsky — with Holly Elmore, PauseAI US
In a 106-minute Doom Debates episode, PauseAI US founder Holly Elmore argues that Eliezer Yudkowsky's early superintelligence plans amounted to a coup without people's consent and that Yudkowsky's public conduct alienates people the pause movement needs. Host Liron Shapira defends Yudkowsky. Elmore also describes congressional offices turning receptive and argues AI lab employees should eventually face jail.
When AI is subject to less regulation than your fridge, something is startlingly wrong
In a Guardian opinion piece, Richard Hermer, a Labour peer and former attorney general, argues that AI poses an existential risk and a threat to human agency, that industry self-regulation is not credible, and that international law and public debate are urgently needed.
Big Tech Execs Asked: Is There A Chance AI Can Escape Human Control And Cause 'Catastrophic Harm?'
Forbes Breaking News posted clips of the New York City Council's 5 October 2026 hearing, where Google, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic representatives testified under oath. Titles and descriptions say the questions covered catastrophic harm, the RAISE Act, legal liability, hospitals, cyber defense, self-generating code, privacy breaches, ICE and children's AI addiction. amNY reports none gave a risk figure.
Bengio: ‘If you prioritize safety, leave frontier AI companies’
In an essay for Transformer, Yoshua Bengio urges researchers at frontier AI companies who put safety first to leave for safety institutes, mission-driven groups or Bengio's non-profit LawZero. Bengio argues that company safety work is not slowing a dangerous race, rejects the case for racing China and rival firms, and doubts regulation will arrive in time.