Long Read: Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse Traces the Fringe Roots of AI Doomers
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-10-06
Ian Duncan's essay starts from Jacob Coxon's 2026 resignation from Anthropic—walking away from unvested equity to warn AI could kill us all, endorsed by alignment lead Evan Hubinger—and argues the loudest doomers emerge from a 25-year-old rationalist internet subculture. It traces how that community incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni seek public trust on AI safety.
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