Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
On September 8, 2026, a researcher named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, the one of the two premier AI labs in the U.S. whose brand has tried to cultivate the image of being the careful one relative to its competitors. He had spent the previous three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then at Anthropic, the engine-room work that makes large models capable, and his goodbye note said, among other things: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.” He left two months before his equity vested and walked away from it.
- ▪On September 8, 2026, a researcher named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, the one of the two premier AI labs in the U.S. whose brand has tried to cultivate the image of being the careful one relative to its competitors.
- ▪He had spent the previous three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then at Anthropic, the engine-room work that makes large models capable, and his goodbye note said, among other things: “The people building AI earnestly believe
- ▪This is not a marketing stunt.” He left two months before his equity vested and walked away from it.
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| Original publisher | Ian Duncan |
| Canonical URL | https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:43:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-17T09:53:42.644Z |
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