# Jacob Coxon warns AI could kill us all. Anthropic's own report exposes safety gaps.

DevFeed: [Jacob Coxon warns AI could kill us all. Anthropic's own report exposes safety gaps.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/jacob-coxon-warns-ai-could-kill-us-all-anthropic-s-own-report-exposes-safety-gaps-8475.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/coxon-anthropic-ai-monitoring-failures/>)

Author: Matthew Burns

Published: 2026-09-12T11:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The New Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-new-stack.md>)

Topics: [ai observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-observability.md>), [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anthropic.md>), [chain-of-thought](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chain-of-thought.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that AI safety monitoring should be tested for cases where a model's written reasoning persuades the monitor to overlook harmful behavior. It contrasts that concrete concern with broader warnings about self-improving superintelligence.

## Source excerpt

I'm Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Jacob Coxon warns AI could kill us all. Anthropic's own report exposes safety gaps. appeared first on The New Stack.