Departures tracker

Who left Anthropic in 2026

3 recorded departures, newest first, each with the role, the date, a source and a confidence label. The AILately.com Desk adds to this list as the Signal publishes. Last entry 2026-09-10.

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Sep 10
Joe Benton leaves Anthropic oversight team for METR
Joe Benton to METR, Researcher, from Anthropic
Benton trades management of Anthropic's own oversight research for an outside seat at METR, converting insider knowledge of safety gaps into independent evaluation leverage.
hireconfirmedSep 10, 2026NBC News: Two AI researchers leave Anthropic and Google over safety concerns: 'There are no adults in the room'
Sep 8
Jacob Coxon leaves Anthropic pretraining to warn on superintelligence race
Jacob Coxon to Independent, Independent AI Safety Advocate, from Anthropic
Coxon trades a paycheck at either lab for a public alarm, turning three years of insider pretraining work into an outside warning about the race to self-improving superintelligence.
departureconfirmedSep 8, 2026ABC News: Anthropic researcher quits saying AI developers believe 'it could kill us all'
Feb 6
John Schulman to Thinking Machines Lab as Researcher
Completed a rare two-hop career path that traced the field's talent gravity across three labs in ten months.
hirereportedFeb 6, 2025Fortune: OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining Mira Murati's startup after brief stint at Anthropic