AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
In a Nutshell
Anthropic's leadership claims there's a >10% chance AI kills humanity this decade while simultaneously pursuing a trillion-dollar IPO, creating a legal and credibility crisis that exposes their regulatory capture strategy. The resignation tweet storm was an orchestrated PR campaign by EA-funded groups to push centralized AI control and ban open source, with the same groups that funded Anthropic's Series A now amplifying extinction fears to create a government moat. Nike lost $200B in market value by abandoning product excellence for political messaging, demonstrating how brands that abandon their core identity face catastrophic consequences.
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Jacob Coxin worked as a researcher at OpenAI then Anthropic over the past three years. He started at Anthropic 6 weeks before resigning. After quitting, he posted on X stating: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. Neither OpenAI or Anthropic ostensibly is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving super intelligence and gambling with our lives." The post received 110 million views within 24 hours, with combined posts reaching 200 million views.
Evan Hubinger, who leads Alignment Science at Anthropic, responded: "Jacob is correct here. We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans. I personally think it is over 10% within the next decade. We do not yet have a plan to solve alignment."
Bernie Sanders cited these posts when proposing legislation to ban super intelligence and pause AI development. Governor JB Pritsker replied stating it's time to sound the alarm louder on reigning in AI.
David Sacks rejected the concerns as "doomer histrionics" that have been heard from this crowd for a long time. He questioned what evidence the researcher brought forward that wasn't already public, describing it as "all just vibes" with no data, reports, or leaked information.
Sacks identified signs of an orchestrated operation: the account had almost no activity, almost no followers, and no posts prior to this resignation tweet storm. If there were prior posts, they were scrubbed. Elon Musk stated this never happened before. Three well-organized, well-funded doomer groups amplified the tweet in the first 15 minutes: Nathan Calvin (general counsel at Encode AI, pushing SP53 in California), Peter Wilddeford (head of policy at AI Policy Network, pushing federal regulations and a federal department of AI), and Daniel Kokotajlo (head of AI Futures Project, who dropped a Rogan episode at the same time using identical phrasing).
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