{"id":3826,"date":"2026-09-14T07:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:39:32","slug":"anthropic-whistleblower-says-congress-should-let-ai-companies-police-themselves-until-a-regulatory-body-is-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=3826","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic whistleblower says Congress should let AI companies police themselves until a regulatory body is established"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon on Sunday called for Congress to allow the nation’s leading frontier AI labs to regulate themselves while lawmakers come up with a long-term regulatory framework for slowing the pace of AI development.<\/p>\n

“My personal opinion would be to insist and allow that the current labs regulate themselves. I do think that the people running the labs, especially their recent communications, are completely genuine. They would like to slow themselves down,” Coxon told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”<\/p>\n

He added that current legislation that’s been introduced in Congress, including the framework for a national “kill switch” if AI starts to exceed the bounds of human control, will quickly be outpaced.<\/p>\n

A “kill switch probably would work on a lot of AIs for now,” Coxon said. “Although I think it’s important to remember, it’d be quite a lot of switches. We have a lot of \u2014 our data centers are pretty big. It’s not the easiest thing in the world, but definitely doable while it’s constrained to one sort of physical location.”<\/p>\n

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He added that one scenario where a kill switch wouldn’t work was described this week by Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei.<\/p>\n

“Like Dario said, very soon there’s the possibility that the kill switch just wouldn’t work because a swarm might have gone on an internetwide hacking run,” Coxon said.<\/p>\n

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