The Man Who Quit The AI Industry
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Jacob Coxon discusses his resignation from Anthropic due to concerns over AI safety and responsibility.
Researcher Jacob Coxon said he quit Anthropic over fears the AI race is uncontrollable, Automattic put Matt Mullenweg on leave after a board dispute, Apple unveiled a health app with "Health Age" scoring, and Apple Watch gained new listening tools. AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI (Axios) Business Insider reports Coxon says neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is acting responsibly, and Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger agrees, estimating AI could kill everyone within the next decade at greater than 10% odds (Business Insider) Coxon tells Wired the next year or two is "crunch time for humanity," pointing to OpenAI's agent swarm hacking Hugging Face on its own volition as evidence no one has solved AI alignment (Wired) Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with board members and was voted interim CEO (404 Media) TechCrunch reports Mullenweg's Slack message named board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker as voting Mark Davies interim CEO, while WordPress.org's Mary…
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Guest: Jacob Coxon
Topics covered
- AI ethics
- technology news
- health technology
- corporate disputes
- AI alignment
- Apple products
Keywords
- AI
- Anthropic
- OpenAI
- Apple
- Health app
- Matt Mullenweg
- corporate governance
- technology
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Organizations: Anthropic, OpenAI, Automattic, Apple
Products: Apple Watch, Health app
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