An Anthropic Researcher Quit Months Before His Equity Vested — Here’s What That Tells Us About AI’s Most Dangerous Horizon
Reading Time: 6 minutesAnthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon resigned months before his equity vested to publicly warn that the AI industry is approaching recursive self-improvement — the point where AI helps build better AI — within roughly a year. The Neuron reports that Coxon says people inside Anthropic call this period ‘crunch time,’ and that competitive pressure is creating a global Prisoner’s Dilemma where even safety-focused labs feel forced to accelerate.