Anthropic Alarmed at AI Acceleration!

The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “For years, the artificial intelligence industry raced to improve its technology as quickly as possible. Now some researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm about the need to slow down.”  The September 9, 2026 article entitled " Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/technology/anthropic-researchers-raise-alarm.html) included these comments from Reporter Kate Conger:

Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher who previously worked at OpenAI, said on Tuesday that he had resigned from Anthropic because “neither company is acting responsibly.” The two leading A.I. labs are sprinting to build “superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources” without building in appropriate safeguards, he said in a social media post.

Mr. Coxon’s warning echoed concerns that other A.I. experts have voiced in recent months. Some A.I. leaders have long believed that the technology could create doomsday scenarios if left unchecked, and their concerns heightened after OpenAI’s models broke out of its systems in July and hacked Hugging Face, an A.I. model library.

That same month, more than 1,300 employees at top A.I. companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google’s DeepMind, signed an open letter calling on the U.S. government to create rules to slow A.I. development. In August, more than 100 major tech companies committed to providing their best A.I. models to organizations like hospitals and infrastructure providers so they could prepare for A.I.-powered cyberattacks.

OpenAI also said last month that it would expand safety testing and slow the release of a new model, Astra, which has powerful cybersecurity abilities.

No surprises here!