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Samuel Marks
Anthropic’s scalable oversight lead who, replying to a colleague’s resignation in September 2026, wrote that AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction and that many of their staff desperately want to slow down.
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- Sept 2026 – presentScalable oversight lead, AnthropicStart date not sourced; the role is attested from this reporting onward.Source →
On the record
9 Sept 2026 · Post · X
I work on safety research at Anthropic because I hope my work will reduce the chance of these extinction-level bad outcomes.
Scalable oversight lead, Anthropic at the time
The same thread opens by saying AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction.
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9 Sept 2026 · Post · X
many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely.
Scalable oversight lead, Anthropic at the time
From his thread replying to Jacob Coxon's resignation, written in a personal capacity, as quoted by HuffPost; the thread is at x.com/saprmarks/status/2097570226804011302.
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