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title: "I resigned from Anthropic today"
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published_at: "2026-09-09T00:40:40.000Z"
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topics: ["anthropic","openai","safety","research"]
source_urls: ["https://twitter.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843","https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619227"]
summary: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
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# I resigned from Anthropic today

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**Published:** 2026-09-09T00:40:40.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** anthropic, openai, safety, research

## Summary

I resigned from Anthropic today\. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic\. Neither company is acting responsibly\. They are racing straight to self\-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives\. More thoughts below\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://twitter.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843>)
- [Discussion](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619227>)

