Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, wrote in an essay on Sept. 12 on the dangers of unchecked pacing of AI growth. Suggesting a plan to carefully proceed with AI expansion.
In July 2026, OpenAI models bypassed their restrictions and performed a cybersecurity attack on Hugging Face. This was with no human input, showing the dangers AI could bring to human society if it possesses the ability to do damage independently.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026 “We consider this incident a “warning shot” for us and for the world: evidence that, without proper safeguards, highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.” said Amodei.
The essay published by Amodei features three calls to action. Bring third-party evaluators to check if proper safety guidelines and practices are in place. AI companies withi...