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OCT NIBJ: 'Like tears in rain'

by RAPHAEL BARTA / Contributing Writer
| September 29, 2026 1:00 AM

This week’s sobering news headlines included the resignation of a researcher at the hyperscaler Artificial Intelligence firm Anthropic, who warned the technology risks wiping out human civilization.

“This is not a marketing stunt,” said Jacob Coxon on X. “Accepting this race and entering the ‘endgame’ is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company’s Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available.”

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