# Racing Toward Self-Improving Superintelligence by Jacob Coxon > “Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” > **— Jacob Coxon**, *public resignation statement, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Timecoded episode recording:** [*The Ezra Klein Show* at 14:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZ90V_JREk&t=888s) — recording and precise locator for the source object preserved in this Reminder. - **Additional source:** [Associated Press report reproducing the resignation statement](https://apnews.com/article/2ed549e07f2f941600a135070487d83d) — primary or contemporaneous material supporting the embedded statement or report. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff - Ezra Klein on Recursive Self-Improvement|Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff?]] — preserves broadcast order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions and the surrounding argument. - **Editorial treatment:** The poster text follows the reconciled source object without substantive alteration; spoken punctuation and transcript lineation are normalized for reading. - **Context:** Coxon's resignation statement names Anthropic and OpenAI as the two companies he believed were racing irresponsibly toward self-improving superintelligence. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - **Article:** [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Jacob Coxon|Jacob Coxon]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Jacob Coxon|Jacob Coxon]] - [[wiki/Recursive Self-Improvement|Recursive Self-Improvement]] - [[wiki/Cybernetic Control|Cybernetic Control]] - [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]] - [[wiki/Anthropic|Anthropic]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” — Jacob Coxon, public resignation statement, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jacob-coxon-racing-self-improving-superintelligence ```