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Former White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks accused ex-Anthropic researcher-turned-critic Jacob Coxon of running a coordinated publicity campaign this week, after Coxon canceled a planned interview hours before it was set to happen.
Critics accuse Jacob Coxon of being a plant after he warned of looming 'disaster.'
An Anthropic researcher quit over fears of runaway AI. His colleague who still works there agreed. Security experts argue that the incidents that are already on record call for tighter oversight, not panic.
"Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change," Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue wrote on X.
Days after former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI could «kill us all by the end of the decade,» developments inside both companies are giving new weight to the dangers he described.
This week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic went viral on social media after he claimed there's a real chance AI could wipe out humanity by decade's end. WIRED’s Will Knight joins “Uncanny Valley” hosts Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger to assess whether the doom narrative is overblown or overdue.
He went from obscure AI researcher to notable independent AI critic literally overnight.