People hold placards during a "emergency protest" by civic action group PauseAI UK outside Downing Street in central London on September 16, 2026, after news that AI researcher Jacob Coxon has decided to leave the industry. The world's biggest AI companies are working on creating a standards body, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said on September 15, as fears rise about the dangers of AI and pressure is on to create a safer version of the technology. Earlier this month researcher Coxon, who had previously worked at OpenAI, left Anthropic and warned that AI labs were "gambling with our lives." (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP via Getty Images)