Not all AI doom as leaders take heed

After an Anthropic employee quit with a warning that artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction, the company is committing to safety measures, while other AI leaders say it’s the right move. In this secretive and highly competitive world, this is unprecedented.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said it would embed independent examiners so the firm can verify safety measures and report on any incidents. It is reassuring and even remarkable that the market leaders are actually trying to slow things down, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 14, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—Somebody was bound to sound the alarm eventually. In this case it was a young British artificial intelligence researcher called Jacob Coxon, who quit his job at the AI company Anthropic to warn the world that “if we don’t slow down the current rate of prog...

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