Garry Tan calls Jacob Coxon saga a smokescreen, urges focus on real AI risks
harris_edouard · x · 2026-09-11
On a podcast, Garry Tan dismissed the Jacob Coxon affair as a "smokescreen" and a coordinated effort to push politicians into knee-jerk responses. He argued the conversation should focus on what's actually happening at Hugging Face, whether agent swarms could take over infrastructure en masse, and what we're doing about it — not "some guy who worked at Anthropic for 2 months." Reposter Jeremie Harris mocked that AI skeptics are now down to "I'd have to see it happen" as their last line of defense.
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