Ex-Anthropic researcher's 'AI could kill us all' warning hits 171M views; AI Now says labs exploit doomsday framing
AINowInstitute · x · 2026-09-24
The Guardian examines why Jacob Coxon's resignation warning broke through.
- Coxon, who spent five years inside Anthropic and OpenAI, resigned saying builders 'earnestly believe AI could kill us all by the end of the decade'; the post drew 171M views.
- The piece situates it in a long tradition: OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman over safety in 2023, Dario Amodei left to found a 'safety-first' lab five years ago, and OpenAI itself was founded on safety rhetoric in 2015.
- AI Now's Amba Kak argues companies were conveniently ready to position themselves as the only ones who can solve the problems they warn about.
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