Anthropic Researcher Warns AI Could Kill Humanity Within Decade Without Regulation

A young researcher has stepped away from one of the world's most consequential laboratories not in defeat, but in alarm — carrying with him a warning that the civilization-shaping technology his generation is building may be outpacing humanity's wisdom to govern it. Jacob Coxon, 27, resigned from Anthropic this week to say publicly what many inside the field believe privately: that without international cooperation and deliberate restraint, the recursive acceleration of artificial intelligence poses a greater than one-in-ten chance of human extinction within a decade. His warning is not a lone