Jacob Coxon on Pausing AI at human-genius level to sol…

Jacob Coxon

AI safety researcher at Anthropic who publicly warned about risks from frontier AI development.

A baby step would be some sort of agreement between OpenAI and Anthropic as the leading Western labs. [They would need] some sort of neutral understanding that they won't immediately go into recursive self improvement in the next year.

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Jacob Coxon, interview with Maxwell Zeff, “The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’,” WIRED, September 9, 2026.

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

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AI Verified Coxon advocates an agreement not to enter recursive self-improvement immediately, supporting paced development. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Coxon supports an agreement not to enter recursive self-improvement immediately; for paced development matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 19d ago

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AI Verified WIRED interview with Jacob Coxon, Sept. 9, 2026, contains the quote verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 19d ago

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Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN

The problem with the pause is you've got China. So, what you really ultimately want is some sort of international agreement—international pacing, you might call it—which will require international coordination and understanding where all the compute ...

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