Zvi's AI #185: Jacob Coxon's Anthropic Exit Turns AI Doom 'Preference Cascade' Into Avalanche
TheZvi · x · 2026-09-10
In AI #185, Zvi argues the field is inside a "preference cascade" — people finally saying out loud that AI might well kill everyone:
- Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and rang the warning bells, turning the cascade into an avalanche that everyone is now discussing; Zvi plans a dedicated post
- Senator Sanders and Representative Casar introduced an outright ban on superintelligence, which Zvi notes he keeps having to remind himself is real
- The news flow is so dense that "there aren't enough days of the week to post all the posts"
A representative long-form weekly for tracking the safety-discourse shift and policy news.
Related event: Anthropic Researcher Resigns Warning Labs Are "Gambling With Our Lives"(217 posts)→
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