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Jacob Coxon, a former AI researcher at Anthropic who resigned over safety concerns, will testify at a New York City council hearing on Monday alongside representatives from major tech companies like Google and OpenAI. The 27-year-old’s public departure in September highlighted fears within the industry about uncontrolled AI development, potentially leading to catastrophic outcomes by the end of the decade. Council Speaker Julie Menin called for this meeting to discuss proposed safeguards against rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. Coxon's testimony is expected to underscore the need for stricter regulations and ethical considerations in AI research as city officials consider a whistleblower protection bill introduced by Menin.
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Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old former artificial intelligence researcher who quit his job at Anthropic over safety concerns, is set to testify at a New York City council meeting on Monday alongside representatives from major AI labs. Coxon's resignation and subsequent calls for enhanced safety measures have sparked national debate about the pace of AI development. In a September 8 post on X (formerly Twitter), Coxon criticized both Anthropic and OpenAI, stating that they are racing towards self-improving superintelligence "and gambling with our lives." The meeting, requested by Council Speaker Julie Menin, aims to bring together AI whistleblowers and industry representatives as city officials consider bills aimed at establishing safeguards for AI development.
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The former artificial intelligence researcher who resigned from his role at Anthropic and subsequently called for enhanced safety guardrails will testify alongside the leading AI lab’s safety representatives at a New York City council meeting on Monday.
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Jacob Coxon, 27, did pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic for three years before abruptly and publicly leaving the private sector, sparking a nationwide debate about the importance of “pacing the frontier” and slowing AI development.
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Coxon’s comments were augmented by various supposed hacking incidents, the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident being the most prominent, and the public’s broadly negative view of the industry.
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“Neither company is acting responsibly,” Coxon said in the Sep. 8 X post announcing his resignation.
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“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”
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Coxon is appearing at the request of Council Speaker Julie Menin, who sought to bring together AI whistleblowers and industry representatives as city officials weigh bills aimed at establishing safeguards, according to Bloomberg.
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The council reportedly subpoenaed SpaceX’s AI team after it failed to respond to a request to appear at the meeting.
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“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon also said in his announcement.
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If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible — but I hear the same people express fear privately.
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No other human activity poses this level of danger.”
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Coxon largely framed his concerns during media appearances around fears that systems that could “hack anything” will one day exist.
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Much of Menin’s motivation for holding the hearing stems from AI companies’ prominence in New York City, though most AI policy debates exist at the federal and state levels.
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A bipartisan backlash against data center construction largely spearheaded by state governors faded from public view once Coxon made the announcement in early September.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei subsequently published an essay titled “We Must Pace The Frontier,” outlining his perspective on how to manage AI’s risks.
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Amodei joined President Donald Trump and other AI leaders last week at the White House to sign a voluntary, non-binding commitment to self-regulation.
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One proposal before the council is a Menin-sponsored bill that would give whistleblowers who report violations a cut of the recovered fines or penalties.
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Coxon wasn’t the only Anthropic employee to quit that week in early September, as the then-head of Scalable Operations also left the company.
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