AI workers with apocalypse fears are facing a troubling, though not unprecedented, career dilemma.
Should they quit their jobs to avoid potentially helping make the doomsday scenario they envision a reality? Or, should they drive change for the better from within?
It’s a thorny predicament that came into focus this week when Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI employee, said in an X post that he was resigning from Anthropic because the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Soon after, Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic’s alignment stress-testing team, essentially backed Coxon, saying he believes…
