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Monday, September 14, 2026
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Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8

Person

Jacob Coxon

Lately: Independent as Independent AI Safety Advocate, from Anthropic.

Public record only: name, role, employer, source, and date.

Recorded moves

  1. Jacob Coxon → Independent as Independent AI Safety Advocate, from Anthropic (Pretraining Researcher)

    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.

    departureconfirmedABC News: Anthropic researcher quits saying AI developers believe 'it could kill us all'Sep 8, 2026

In the archive

  • Agent Infrastructure

    The Signal Brief: Wednesday's Reckonings, Raises, and Robots

    A pretraining researcher's exit, a credit fight over a machine-solved Millennium Prize problem, and Cognition's forty-eight-billion-dollar valuation show capital and conscience pulling AI in opposite directions this Wednesday.

  • Safety & Security

    The Signal Brief: Friday's Prophets, Partnerships, and Policy

    Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic, Qualcomm's sixty-billion-dollar wager on Amazon's data centers, and OpenAI's push for binding safety law show capital and conscience moving at matched speed this week.

  • Safety & Security

    Anthropic's Alignment Reckoning

    Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic warning of a reckless race to superintelligence, and four colleagues, including Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger, chose to stay and say he is right.