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Sep 18, 2026
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Yes, all that rationalist talk about IMO contestants was on to something.
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Amrith Ramkumar, Aaron Wu, Berber Jin, and Ben Cohen, WSJ.
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Of the six members of Coxon's International Math Olympiad team, three ended up working for AI Labs, including one who also recently quit Anthropic.
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Joe Benton left Anthropic Safety Team in late August to join the AI research organization METR, later riding on X. AI companies are racing to build machines that are much smarter than any human, and we may not survive this.
Ryan KnutsonHOST
[Instrumental music] As both sides continue to build the thing that might kill us all, how is the White House thinking about China's refusal to slow down? That's next.
Ryan KnutsonHOST
Our colleague Amrith Ramkumar covers tech policy.
Ryan KnutsonHOST
We caught up with him outside an event about AI regulation.
Amrith RamkumarCORRESPONDENT
Right now I am at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in downtown DC where there is a pro-human protest/assembly happening with people like Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, many lawmakers, and advocates for increased AI regulation are, are meeting and chatting.
Matt EricksonHOST
Four and a half hours later at 7.46 PM, September 8th, Wall Street Journal ran another anthropic story.
Matt EricksonHOST
So They get a big anthropic piece, gets it trending, getting people talking about it, and then follow up immediately with another anthropic story, an exclusive by their tech and crypto policy reporter, Amrith Ramkumar.
Matt EricksonHOST
Coxon's resignation.
Matt EricksonHOST
Since updated on September 9, 18 minutes after that, Coxon tweeted...
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Anthropix raising up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation.
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Four and a half hours later, Wall Street Journal ran another anthropic story, an exclusive about their tech and crypto policy reporter, Amrith Ramkumar.
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Coxon's resignation is updated.
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18 minutes after that, we get the Coxon tweet.
Ryan KnutsonHOST
The Journal is a co-production of Spotify and The Wall Street Journal.
Ryan KnutsonHOST
Additional reporting in this episode by Angel Au Young, Lindsay Ellis, Keech Hagee, Amrith Ramkumar, Sam Schechner, Brian Schwartz, and Aaron Wu.
Ryan KnutsonHOST
Thanks for listening.
Ryan KnutsonHOST
See you tomorrow.
Luke VargasHOST
That comes after a stunning blog written by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, which echoed many of the concerns that sparked panic in recent days after one of his employees said there was a greater than ten percent chance that AI systems could destroy civilization.
Luke VargasHOST
Journal tech reporter Amrith Ramkumar has more.
Amrith RamkumarCORRESPONDENT
On Saturday, Dario Amodei said that he supports a gradual slowdown in AI, a coordinated slowdown, if you will, where all the top companies come together and agree to slow down, and he wants that to be globally coordinated with the world's largest governments, led by the US and China.
Amrith RamkumarCORRESPONDENT
Right after that, you had Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk, heads of other large AI companies essentially, come out and back that coordinated slowdown.
Amrith RamkumarCORRESPONDENT
So it's definitely not like you have everyone acting in unison or in lockstep on this, but it is an interesting juxtaposition where you have that increasing adoption set against the backdrop of these sort of doomsday fears that are out there.
Amrith RamkumarCORRESPONDENT
And a lot of people are looking ahead to President Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping later this month, and there's a big question about whether they'll talk about AI risks and whether there could be some sort of coordinated slowdown there.
Luke VargasHOST
That was tech reporter Amrith Ramkumar.
Luke VargasHOST
And for more on this developing story, stay with wsj.com throughout the week.
Mike GavinHOST
Now hefty tax bills and backlash from residents has changed that equation.
Mike GavinHOST
For details, we welcome Amrith Ramkumar, tech reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
Mike GavinHOST
Amrith, why are some of these states reversing course when it comes to data centers?
Nicole MurrayHOST
They're looking all-- at all the polls and seeing everyone protesting against data centers and looking for things they can do to take action.
Mike GavinHOST
Yeah, not the end of the story for sure.
Mike GavinHOST
Thanks, Amrith.
Mike GavinHOST
Amrith Ramkumar from the Wall Street Journal.
Mike GavinHOST
[upbeat music] Meanwhile, the war involving the US, Israel, and Iran is putting new pressure on global energy prices with no clear end in sight, as Iranian, an Iranian commercial ship was hit Sunday near the Strait of Hormuz, killing at least one person and injuring others.
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Anusha Devang Shah reports for Reuters.
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James Ramazar, Meredith McGrath, and Amrith Ramkumar report for The Wall Street Journal.
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Trump and White House AI advisor David Sachs yesterday defended the administration's strategy of minimal regulation, amid Amadei's comments.
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Trump said, a lot of negative forces are bringing up concerns around AI development, and reiterated his belief that the United States must outpace China in building AI, saying, whoever wins AI, wins.
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Anthropic AI researcher quits.
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Mathematician leaves industry with warning of existential risks by Amrith Ramkumar.
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An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won't be able to control, a sign of mounting safety concerns within top AI companies.
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Jacob Coxon, a researcher who specializes in training AI models by having them consume vast amounts of data, said Tuesday that he is leaving the company because he doesn't want to participate in an industry-wide rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves, worried such systems could spiral out of control and destroy humanity.
Geoff BennettHOST
No other human activity poses this level of danger.
Geoff BennettHOST
For more on the warnings that Coxon is raising and the broader questions about whether the AI industry is doing enough to address it, we're joined now by Amrith Ramkumar, tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal.
Geoff BennettHOST
Welcome back to the program.
Geoff BennettHOST
Thanks so much for having me.
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Amrith RamkumarGUEST
All this
Geoff BennettHOST
doom and gloom with a smile, Amrith.
Geoff BennettHOST
Amrith Ramkumar, tech journalist for The Wall Street Journal.
Geoff BennettHOST
Thanks for being with us.
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