Former Anthropic researcher warns of human extinction by 2030

Jacob Coxon, who just quit Anthropic, has gone public with warnings that AI could cause human extinction by the end of the decade, describing what he calls a "mini Manhattan Project" inside the lab and a fundamental failure of alignment research to keep pace with capability gains. The remarks triggered a rapid political response, with Republican senator Ted Cruz calling AI a "catastrophic risk" on national television — an unusually bipartisan alarm for a technology debate that has mostly stayed in Silicon Valley.