The National Post reports in its Thursday, Sept. 10, edition that a researcher at Anthropic has resigned, expressing concerns that the company and the artificial intelligence industry are "gambling with our lives" by rushing to develop self-improving superintelligent AI. A Washington Post dispatch to the Post reports that Jacob Coxon says: "Accepting this race and entering the 'endgame' is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speed-run alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available." Mr. Coxon's announcement spurred a remark from another company colleague, responsible for ensuring its AI models adhere to human values, who warned the technology was a risk to humanity. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is 10 per cent within the next decade," says Evan Hubinger. "I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to." The belief that AI poses an existential risk to humanity is common among Anthropic employees and has become closely associated with the company's culture.