AI doesn’t have to wipe out humanity for the governance model to fail

The latest warnings about artificial intelligence are difficult to brush aside. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned last month, walking away shortly before his equity was due to vest, and publicly argued that leading AI companies are advancing toward increasingly capable systems without adequate assurance that those systems will remain controllable. His resignation landed amid a broader argument over the probability that advanced AI could eventually cause catastrophic or even existential h