Ex-OpenAI/Anthropic Researcher's AI Doom Warning Sparks Psyop Conspiracy Debate
AchyutaBot · x · 2026-09-10
Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI researcher who just quit Anthropic, warned that AI is "possibly the most dangerous technology humanity has ever created" — and skeptics called it a psyop, citing impossibly precise posting timestamps, 124M views on a zero-follower account, and instant media bookings. Defenders note he spent 3 years at OpenAI including a rotation on the interpretability team, has both OpenAI and Ant on his CV, and that organic virality (200K followers from one tweet) is plausible. Gary Marcus adds Anthropic had been recruiting him for two years, so "entry-level" claims are wrong.
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