Link: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/10/jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai-doomsday-media-campaign/

to keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IoTZNN6iM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260910-jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai-doomsday-media-campaign - podcast

time: 6 min 20 sec

Yeah, they want to prevent independent AI use such as local models so you have to buy their product.

Every single Anthropic and OpenAI employee retweeting or otherwise agreeing with Coxon is full of shit. "Hi, I work at [insert AI lab name here], and Jacob is right. I'm scared. There's a 10% chance humanity ends in the next 10 years. I am continuing to work on this technology that might end humanity in 10 years. Ask me anything."

They're so full of themselves they either don't care or believe they are the only ones responsible enough to make the AI

Seriously, if you genuinely believe you will destroy civilisation, STOP WORKING THERE you are only making it worse

Seriously, from no social media presence to CNN interview in under like a day? Wild

I continue to be amazed by those random university students somehow outwitting all of LessWrong on this matter.

Also, Altman and Amodei should be put in jail. Banning chatbots probably wouldn’t hurt either

Swedish media reports essentially the same, which shows the importance of targetting outlets like WSJ or NYT - those media orgs might not have enormous reach but they have credibility. It's usually a safe bet to repeat stuff they have repeated.

I don't know if there is any professional journalist in Sweden who has sat down and researched these networks. It's not surprising if not, they're not that big a deal here (in fact, "AI" as an election issue is basically non-existent, the election is on Sunday)

This is an incredible read, i haven't finished it yet but I can't believe these are all new arguments to these people.

e: I got through some of the comments, no, they've heard the arguments but their counter arguments are being filtered through a willfully incorrect version of reality

"10% chance the moon will kill humanity in the next 10 years.", says NASA space exploration lead.

YT suggested a Dwarkesh interview with Ajeya Cotra next to your video. Cotra is A UC Berkeley grad who works at OpenPhil and promotes and is promoted by Kelsey Piper.

This is an incredible read

It really is. Regards to BioMan for finding it: https://awful.systems/post/9389883/12420011

She's also Paul Chistiano's spouse.

If you work there and you genuinely believe you will destroy civilization you're either full of shit or experiencing AI psychosis. This tech is simply not that good. go outside and touch some fricking grass.

Never heard of him and can't find him in the archives of SneerClub or TechTakes just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Christiano

He was once Dario Amodei's roommate. He also cofounded the Alignment Research Center (funded in part by a sizable FTX donation), which spun off METR, the organization Cotra now works at.

Most read article on BBC this morning: AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC

Burn it down and salt the earth then. What's the point of whinging about it?