AI Researcher, Jacob Coxon, Fears that AI "Could Kill Us All Within a Decade"

Jacob Coxon helped train the AI models. Then he quit and told 90 million people they should be scared.

Jacob Coxon on AI threat to human existence. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

On September 8, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic. The next day he posted a seven-part thread on X explaining why, and it hit 90 million views in under 24 hours.

Most AI doom warnings come from people who have never been near a training run. Coxon spent three years doing…