Gary Marcus: Anthropic Spent Two Years Recruiting Him, Hardly Entry-Level
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-10
Responding to Jordan Schachtel's skepticism about Jacob Coxon, Gary Marcus corrects the "entry-level gig" framing: per Ethan Perez, Anthropic had been recruiting Coxon for two years, and he spent three years at OpenAI before that — hardly an entry-level hire. Context for the ongoing Coxon AI-doom-warning drama.
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