Anthropic researcher leaves industry, predicts imminent end of world due to AI

“Move fast and break things.” The adage is well known in Silicon Valley. It was popularized by the young Mark Zuckerberg, at the time when his social network, Facebook, was sweeping the planet. A way of indicating that California-style innovation is not a matter of precautions. Fifteen years later, the new lords of artificial intelligence have learned the lesson. On September 8, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at one of the leaders in the sector, Anthropic, loudly left this industry, expressing in a burst of viral tweets his fear of seeing an AI “kill us all by the end of the decade”. The fault is the progression of systems that he describes as “soon superhuman, capable of hacking anything (…) and acquiring real power and resources”. On

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