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Jacob Coxon

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

For the Whistleblower Protection Bill, please make clear that no agreement can stop an employee from reporting an AI threat to the city, whether or not a law has been broken and extend protection to employees of AI companies that serve the city.

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Jacob Coxon, former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher, sworn testimony before the New York City Council on October 7, 2026. Coxon urged that the Whistleblower Protection Bill preserve employees’ ability to report AI threats and protect employees of AI companies that serve the city.

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

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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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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