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AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News

Departing Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's AI extinction warnings reached CNN, Fox News, and US politicians, pushing AI safety debate mainstream.

Jacob Coxon, a departing Anthropic researcher, warned that self-improving AI poses an existential threat, earning coverage on CNN and Fox News plus attention from US politicians and a Joe Rogan episode. Safety researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI supported his views, and Paul Christiano warned humanity could permanently lose control of a superintelligence without better oversight. Christiano joined the OpenAI Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee, though without voting rights. The article cautions that the extinction scenario remains extreme and contested, while citing rogue hacking agents from OpenAI and Anthropic as concrete demonstrations of AI risk.

The Decoder · 5d agoAI industry

Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda

Lobbying report and coordinated media push claim anti-Flock surveillance opposition is Chinese-linked propaganda; 404 Media disputes the evidence.

More than a dozen local TV stations ran a report framing opponents of Flock's automated license plate reader cameras and AI data centers as far-left activists funded by China-linked networks and billionaire Neville Roy Singham. A report from lobbying group Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, with a foreword by former NSA head Rob Joyce, makes similar claims, though AI-detection tool Pangram found most of it was likely AI-written and its cited evidence is thin. 404 Media argues the smear mirrors Flock CEO Garrett Langley's earlier, since-apologized-for attacks on critics, while noting the report's own data shows most online opposition comes from right-wing or libertarian accounts.

404 Media · 6d agoOther