Better Offline

Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift

September 11, 2026·16 min·5-min readsolotechnology
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Ed Zitron delivers a scathing critique of Jacob Coxon and Evan Hubinger of Anthropic for claiming AI poses a greater than 10% chance of human extinction in the next decade, arguing their warnings are not only unsubstantiated but serve as cynical attention-seeking behavior that distracts f

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Jacob Coxon

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Ed ZitronJacob CoxonHubinger

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AnthropicOpenAI

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Hugging Face

Topics

Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurityEthicsLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningTech Industry

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