What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World? – New York Magazine
Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.
Participants
Miles Brundage, OpenAI, 2018–24, head of policy research
Rosie Campbell, OpenAI, 2021-24, policy-frontiers team lead
Jacob Coxon, OpenAI, 2023–26, Anthropic, May–September 2026, capabilities researcher
Jacob Hilton, OpenAI, 2018-23, reinforcement-learning researcher
Pamela Mishkin, OpenAI, 2020–26, economics-research team lead
Daniel Kokotajlo, OpenAI, 2022–24, governance researcher
Alex Turner, Google DeepMind, 2023–26, alignment researcher
Jeff Wu, OpenAI, 2018–24, Anthropic, 2024–26, alignment researcher
Jacob Coxon, OpenAI, 2023–26, Anthropic, May–September 2026, capabilities researcher
Jacob Hilton, OpenAI, 2018-23, reinforcement-learning researcher
Pamela Mishkin, OpenAI, 2020–26, economics-research team lead
Daniel Kokotajlo, OpenAI, 2022–24, governance researcher
Alex Turner, Google DeepMind, 2023–26, alignment researcher
Jeff Wu, OpenAI, 2018–24, Anthropic, 2024–26, alignment researcher
Coxon was joining a small set of employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind who, over the years, chose to walk away. New York Magazine, in collaboration with Asterisk magazine, brought together eight of them. The members of this group left for different reasons.