What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World? Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind. Photo: Carolyn Drake On September 8, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic employee, posted a resignation statement on X that ricocheted around the internet. Coxon was a capabilities researcher, meaning he worked to make models more powerful and autonomous. He quit in protest of what he saw as the company’s suicidally reckless pursuit of artificial general intelligence....