AI Researcher Quits OpenAI and Anthropic Over Superintelligence Risks: Inside the Lab Warnings on Recursive AI
Pretraining researcher Arthur Coxon resigned from frontier AI labs on September 9, 2026, warning that OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward recursive superintelligence without solved alignment. With Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger placing existential catastrophe odds above 10%, inside disclosures reveal growing alarm over autonomous cyber capabilities and compromised Responsible Scaling Policies.