The researcher who publicly left Anthropy now says he may return.
"I'm not sure I made the right decision when I left," Jacob Cookson said at Stanford on Nov. 9. "Who knows? maybe i will come back It's not entirely out of the question. ".
In September, he resigned from Anthropic with a viral post warning that AI labs were moving too fast. At Stanford he said what pushed him:
I saw accurate predictions of the capabilities of models in the next six months to one year that made me think, you know, we're on the verge of recursive self-improvement.
It's a self-improving AI, and he thinks it could bring intelligence on "before the decade is out." ".
He still owns stock from his years at OpenAI. "I like money, man," he told the host. "I agree, it's blood money. ".