Jensen Huang slams ex-Anthropic researcher's warnings as 'outlandish' as generational AI doomerism debate heats up
nptacek · x · 2026-09-11
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang publicly responded to ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's safety warnings, calling his tweets "outlandish, deeply untrue, arrogant and ignorant of the industry's safety work."
VC Antonio García Martínez framed the episode with a broader theory: AI doomerism is largely generational. Twenty-something lab staff treat AI as a techno-Rapture, while "olds" like Huang and Marc Andreessen tell them to chill out — a "Great Generational Inversion" where the young are cautious and conformist, not rebellious.
The thread captures the widening camps in AI safety discourse: young internal lab staff versus veteran tech leaders.
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