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The Data Economy

Former AI researchers raise safety and cost concerns at major labs

Statements from two departing senior researchers were filed 22 and 23 October 2026.

By Kenji Mori · 2h
AI Industry · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sources✓ hash-verified

Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher, publicly resigned accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of racing toward artificial general intelligence without responsible action.

Former OpenAI researcher Steven Adler stated that sandboxed offline training imposes very large operational overhead costs.

No link has been asserted between the two statements.

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