Neil Chilson: Fear Sells — How the AI Doomer Narrative Made Coxon Famous
neil_chilson · x · 2026-09-10
Neil Chilson argues that a well-crafted, well-timed doom narrative can turn an unknown junior engineer into a cable-news fixture, as Jacob Coxon's rise shows — and that the AI doomer crowd has sold a lot of fear. Yet he sees a glimmer of hope even in Coxon's thread: solving big problems requires optimism, and AI can help. He calls for reviving the frontier spirit and points to his work at the Abundance Institute.
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