Acquaintance Recalls Coxon as an Aimless Trader Back in 2022

An acquaintance recalls Coxon as a bright but aimless young trader in 2022 at Berkeley, with no deep AI safety stance—later he joined OpenAI's pretraining team and made good money. The two had lost contact for three years.

2026-09-19 ~ 2026-09-19 · 3 related posts

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