Inside the September 2026 AI Safety Crisis: What Happened and What Comes Next

The Announcement

The September 2026 AI Safety Crisis reached its peak with the emergence of several key reports and statements. One of the most notable events was the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who shared a series of posts on X that have now been seen by over 115 million people. Coxon, who spent the last three years working on AI pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, claimed that "neither company is acting responsibly" and that they are "racing straight to...