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AI extinction warnings dominate headlines after ex-Anthropic employee's viral post

Jacob Coxon warned that AI builders 'earnestly believe' the technology could kill everyone by decade's end

By Howard Kurtz Fox News

Published September 14, 2026 3:00am EDT

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There's been a tidal wave of media coverage on the dastardly dangers of AI, some carrying warnings that "we're all gonna die!" – maybe. 

And what unleashed this flood of frightening stories about super-intelligent AI networks crushing humanity?

One social media post by a guy no one's ever heard of. 

Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, resigned and posted his concerns on X, the tweets triggering such a thunderous reaction across the media landscape that television raced to put him on the air. It was this sentence that cast him as a digital-age Paul Revere: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

And here's the irony: the journalists covering and commenting on the surge in artificial intelligence have little idea how serious that threat is. If the high-tech crowd can’t agree, how are those who cover everything from politics to war supposed to know?

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