Twelve AI Insiders Warn the Technology Could Kill Everybody — and They're the Ones Building It
The last 24 hours brought something new: a wave of warnings from the people actually building advanced AI.
Ted Gioia's The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie (Sep 9, 2026) collected eleven of them. Here are the statements and their sources.
The resignation that started it
Jacob Coxon — resigned from Anthropic. Warned the technology "could kill everybody before the end of the decade."
Source: X/Twitter — hilbertspaess/status/2097476203863224394
Ref: jacob-coxon-anthropic-resignation (wayintoai)
The endorsements
Evan Hubinger — Anthropic. "Quickly moved to endorse Coxon's concerns."
Alex Turner — recently left Google. "Said the exact same thing."
Anna Wang — Anthropic.
Samuel Marks — Harvard PhD, works at Anthropic. "Offered more details—but comes to the same conclusion."
Jason Wolfe — OpenAI. "Is also worried."
Jonathan Richard Schwarz — formerly with Google.
The Chief Scientist
Jakub Pachocki — Chief Scientist at OpenAI.
Source: OpenAI: "An Alien Mind"
Ref: an-alien-mind-pachocki (wayintoai)
The postscript — three more
Ethan Perez — Anthropic.
Julie Steele — OpenAI.
Drake Thomas — Anthropic.
The pattern Gioia draws
Eight different people building this technology are afraid of what they're seeing. But they don't have the power individually to stop the insanity.
Trillions of dollars are getting pumped into a runaway technology, and the public already hates it intensely. Now the people making it happen are warning it just might kill everybody.
This demands a response from the highest circles of power and authority.
Not a single insider has stepped forward to deny that these concerns represent the actual views of a large number of AI experts.
Related
- pacing-the-frontier — statement from 1,384 frontier AI employees (July 2026), including Shengjia Zhao, Leo Gao, Ilya Sutskever
- garymarcus-pause-openai-now — Gary Marcus: "Pause OpenAI, now" (Sep 4, 2026)
- moc-ai-security-incidents — AI Security Incidents & Escalations MOC
- an-alien-mind-pachocki — Jakub Pachocki's "An Alien Mind" (OpenAI Chief Scientist)
- jacob-coxon-anthropic-resignation — Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic
posts/2026-09-10-the-pace-is-the-story.md— wayintoai post: "The pace is the story"
Original collection: Ted Gioia, The Honest Broker, Sep 9, 2026.