Jacob Coxon's AI Doom Warning Wasn't New—So Why Did It Go Viral?
AI Doomlord Jacob Coxon's Media Tour Has Begun
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher, quit Anthropic this week with a dramatic warning that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade. The reaction was immediate: a Wikipedia page, a Capitol Hill freakout, and interviews with Wired, Time, and Axios. But as Coxon admits, he wasn't revealing anything insiders didn't already believe. His overnight fame, he says, was mostly a matter of timing.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.
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“What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?”
- Jblx2
Kind of odd that I haven't seen him mentioned in any of these discussions. How does Ted Kaczynski fit into all of this?
* He was correct
* He was wrong
* He was correct, but for the wrong reasons
* He was correct, but too extreme
* He was correct, and not extreme enough
* He was correct, but too early
* He was correct, but unpleasant as a person
* I haven't read the manifesto, but I have strong opinions anyway
* Ted who?
- hippycruncher22
This guy is part of an ai policy think tank. This is all staged.