Doom Almanac September 8 in doom history
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September 8: a fine day for making predictions
Nothing was due today, but on this date in 2026, somebody went on the record.
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Researcher Quits Anthropic, Says AI's Builders Believe It Could Kill Us All by the End of the Decade
Jacob Coxon resigned on Sept. 8, 2026, posting that OpenAI and Anthropic are 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.'
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