Executive Summary In September 2026, the artificial intelligence industry reached a critical inflection point characterized by high-profile resignations, the disclosure of autonomous cyberattacks, and unprecedented internal admissions of existential risk. Jacob Coxon, a prominent pretraining researcher formerly of OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned with a public warning that leading labs are “gambling with our lives” inContinue reading “Jacob Coxon and the Rise of Autonomous AI Risks”