My Chinese Internet Is Talking About AI Doom
My Chinese Internet Is Talking About AI DoomAn Anthropic insider quit. I went looking at what people were actually saying.YinweiSep 13, 20261011214ShareOver the past few days, my Chinese internet has gotten weird.I spend a probably unreasonable amount of my free time reading and writing about AI safety, so I'm used to seeing AI safety people talk about AI safety. Weibo, WeChat, RedNote, and Zhihu all know what I click on.But this time I started seeing the same conversation in places I didn't expect.A WeChat article about Jacob Coxon's resignation had taken off.
- ▪My Chinese Internet Is Talking About AI DoomAn Anthropic insider quit.
- ▪I went looking at what people were actually saying.YinweiSep 13, 20261011214ShareOver the past few days, my Chinese internet has gotten weird.I spend a probably unreasonable amount of my free time reading and writing about AI safety, so I'm
- ▪Weibo, WeChat, RedNote, and Zhihu all know what I click on.But this time I started seeing the same conversation in places I didn't expect.A WeChat article about Jacob Coxon's resignation had taken off.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://yinwei.substack.com/p/my-chinese-internet-is-talking-about |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:30:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-17T06:33:42.002Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-17T06:33:42.002Z |
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| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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My Chinese Internet Is Talking About AI DoomAn Anthropic insider quit. His warning went viral in China. I went looking at what people were actually saying.YinweiSep 13, 20261011214ShareOver the past few days, my Chinese internet has gotten weird.I spend a probably unreasonable amount of my free time reading and writing about AI safety, so I'm used to seeing AI safety people talk about AI safety. My feed is also obviously biased. Weibo, WeChat, RedNote, and Zhihu all know what I click on.But this time I started seeing the same conversation in places I didn't expect.A WeChat article about Jacob Coxon's resignation had taken off.
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