The world has increasingly centered on technology, with an ever-budding focus on the development of further advancements and inventions, especially that of Artificial Intelligence. As it is still very recent and constantly changing, many have questioned just how ethical the heavy reliance on AI has become, especially with it now being used in everyday technology, entertainment, and business.

Specifically, AI has impacted education, with millions of students using the source more than using their critical thinking. Hingham High School sophomore, Remy Lynch, adds to this point that “[AI] doesn’t let students be creative in their writing, or in general, which makes it so they can’t think for themselves”. And while many have questioned AI since its creation, the importance of this issue comes up again with Jacob Coxon, a British researcher for the AI Powerhouse Anthropic, taking a step back and publicly stating his opposition to AI. 

Recently, Coxon has relinquished himself and his connections at Anthropic. He has now taken to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share the real impact he is seeing AI have, noting “They [Anthropic] are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives” and “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”(Jacob Coxon’s X).

As a former contributor to the AI phenomenon, these claims have reached the eyes and ears of those who had originally turned a blind eye to the growing issue. Even students at Hingham High School, such as Sophomore, Peter Dixon report, “With more and more information coming out, I am going to try to be more mindful of how much I use it [AI].”

The gravity of what Coxon has reported has inspired numerous AI companies to take a step back, and examine what exactly their plan is to contain the Artificial Intelligence juggernaut.

The weekend of September 12th, 2026, the leaders in this industry, such as Elon Musk (owner of xAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) , Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO), and Demis Hassabis (Chief of Google DeepMind), met to discuss where the future of AI is headed (The Guardian). All formed an agreement that its progress should be slowed. 

What exactly this “slowdown” will consist of is unclear, and with Artificial Intelligence being such an integral part of the world today, there will be no easy feat for this slowdown to occur. Yet, with all the most powerful names on the same page, change in the world of AI is bound to come fast and plentiful.