{
  "id": 7222437,
  "title": "Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussion",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/two-missing-pieces-in-the-ai-safety-discussion",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-14T01:43:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Noahpinion",
    "slug": "noahpinion",
    "url": "https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/two-missing-pieces-in-the-ai-safety"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In recent weeks, the importance of AI safety has become increasingly apparent. A young AI researcher named Jacob Coxon made headlines by resigning from Anthropic, alleging that both OpenAI and Anthropic are working on technology that could result in the destruction of humanity. This sentiment was echoed by other researchers, who expressed their belief that AI has a reasonable chance of causing the extinction of the human race within a short period.\n\nThe reason behind the viral nature of Coxon's resignation and statements is unclear, as similar actions and concerns have been made by numerous researchers over the past few years. Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in modern AI, left Google in 2023 due to safety concerns. Daniel Kokotajlo also left OpenAI in 2024, expressing his belief that the company was not acting responsibly in its pursuit of superintelligence. William Saunders and Steve Adler took similar measures. Mrinank Sharma recently left Anthropic and wrote a widely read blog post about his decision.\n\nFurthermore, there has been a long-standing awareness among AI researchers that \"AI could kill humanity\" is a common belief in the field. A study conducted by Grace et al. (2024) surveyed thousands of AI researchers in 2024 and found that over half of them considered artificial superintelligence to have a significant chance of leading to the extinction of the human race or causing similarly catastrophic consequences.",
  "summary": "We need to make skeptics properly scared. And we need to make CHINA properly scared.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}