Use AI. But never hand over your judgment

On September 8, a 27-year-old British researcher sat on a park bench in San Francisco and quit his job. Jacob Coxon had spent three years training AI models at OpenAI and Anthropic, and his resignation post claimed that neither company was acting responsibly and that both were racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Within 36 hours, roughly 153 million people had seen it.

Fear of new machines is nothing new. English weavers smashed looms in the 1810s, and teachers panicked when calculators arrived in classrooms in the 1970s. Each time, work changed instead of disappearing. What makes this moment strange is who is sounding the alarm. Some of the loudest warnings are coming from the people building the technology.