Have AI apocalypse warnings reached critical mass?

Jacob Coxon, the 27-year-old researcher who split his time between OpenAI and Anthropic on pre-training research, announced his resignation from Anthropic last week on X with a lethal thread.

"Neither company is acting responsibly," he wrote.

"They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." He said the people building this technology "earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade." Hundreds of thousands of likes later, Coxon’s post has shaken the world.

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Coxon’s words were like a sudden, violent Mahjong collapse; breaching the fortress walls and upending the entire AI enterprise in a single clattering moment.

First came Congress’s whiplash reaction.

Senator Bernie Sanders announced he's i ntroducing legislation to ban superintelligence outright.

Then, Senator Richard Blumenthal fired off a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman demanding answers about his AI agents reportedly going rogue.

Over the weekend came another shock when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a massive 3,800-word essay on his website titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," effectively trying to pump the brakes on the entire AI arms race.

Altman chimed in on Monday, admitting "we could lose control." On Saturday at a private fundraiser, Barack Obama threw down a gauntlet for Democrats.

The 44th president told his party to stop coasting on AI safety and make it a marquee campaign issue .

He was answering House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries's question about Coxon’s stark warning.

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