The AI world has turned one researcher’s extinction warning into its latest copy-and-paste meme: resign dramatically, accuse your company of racing recklessly toward disaster, then reveal that the supposed threat is a self-painting fake tunnel.
The trend was sparked by Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who previously worked at OpenAI. On Wednesday, he announced his resignation from Anthropic with a stark warning about the AI race.
“Neither company is acting responsibly,” Coxon wrote on X of Anthropic and OpenAI. “They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”
Dozens of X users have since mirrored Coxon’s grave, tightly structured announcement — only to swap the prospect...
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