Old Tweets of Anthropic Employee Who Quit Over AI Risks Surface
Internet sleuths uncovered archived posts appearing to belong to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee who claimed AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade." The 2021–2024 tweets dismiss climate change, call the rainforest a "festering pit," and include an apparent Holocaust denial trope.
- Archived @hilbertspaess accounts were active between 2021 and 2024
- 2022 tweets called climate change worries "beyond reason"
- Coxon's AI warning post surpassed 800,000 likes
- Coxon downplayed climate change on Fox News
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