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The anonymous math geek who quit Anthropic—and became the face of AI safety
Long-simmering worries about the technology’s potential dangers have exploded into the global consciousness since Jacob Coxon’s dire warning.
Over the past week, a global reckoning about the risks of artificial intelligence spread from the frontier labs of Silicon Valley to living rooms across America and the corridors of power in Washington and Beijing.
And it all started with a guy nobody had ever heard of.
Until he publicly resigned from Anthropic and warned about the dangers of AI systems that could end humanity, Jacob Coxon was anonymous.
