Blogger claims 'Doomer Industrial Complex' manufactured the Coxon affair as a scam
petetrainor · x · 2026-09-15
Greg Hopper argues that frontier labs, AI safety activists, and politicians form a 'Doomer Industrial Complex' manufacturing incidents to provoke government action. He claims OpenAI brought in METR and Redwood Research to blame a HuggingFace incident on rogue agents instead of its own lax security; that Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's sudden viral resignation was staged; and that Dario Amodei leveraged it to push a slowdown, inviting the same NGOs as monitors. Note: unverified, one blogger's contested account.
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