As Anthropic insiders warn that AI could end humanity this decade, the Broadcasting Commission’s executive director carries a small-island argument into Silicon Valley

Palo Alto is arguing about extinction. Kingston is arguing about literacy. Both conversations are about survival — and only one of them currently has a Caribbean seat at the table.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, september 12, 2026 - This week, researchers at the artificial intelligence laboratory Anthropic went public with warnings of a kind no industry has previously issued about its own products.

Jacob Coxon, who spent three years on pretraining research at OpenAI and then Anthropic, resigned and wrote that the people building AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” accusing both companies of racing towards self-improving superintelligence and gambling with other people’s lives.

Anthropic’s alignment science lead, Evan Hubinger, publicly agreed, putting the odds at better than one in ten within the next decade and conceding that his employer has no settled plan for solving the problem. A third colleague, Samuel Marks, said developers press on regardless, driven by commercial incentive and the conviction that rivals would behave worse.