The Wall Street Journal has a feature on 27-year-old Jacob Coxon, whose social media post explaining why he quit his job as a researcher at Anthropic due to his concerns about the threat of AI causing human extinction received over 172 million views.
No one has moved the needle over AI concerns as much as Coxon, except perhaps Pope Leo XIV. The Wall St. Journal article provides an informative biography of Coxon.
“If a doomer means someone thinks we’re going to die if we don’t change what we’re doing, I’m definitely a doomer.”
Jacob Coxon
Coxon’s comments have divided AI executives and political leaders. Many agree with Coxon; many disagree. But there’s no denying Coxon has called public attention to AI risks in a way that almost no one else has. Here is a timeline of some of the key events related to public attention to AI:
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