Gary Marcus(@GaryMarcus)

The Hugging Face incidents has already proved that you can have harmful, infrastructure-attacking AI...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:47:09 GMT

The Hugging Face incidents has already proved that you can have harmful, infrastructure-attacking AI without getting to AGI, RSI, or superintelligence, let alone the so-called Singularity.

And already proved that companies like OpenAI lack the internal skills to prevent such incidents.

Stop focusing so much on AGI; look at where we already are.

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

A lot of people here are either dumb or poor listeners.

The immediate problem (as I have said hundred of times) is NOT AGI (we don’t have that yet), it’s reckless and unreliable AI that we can’t well control (we do have that, and it already causing problems).

Why is this soooooo hard for so many people?

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Thanks to @cnni for letting me speak from the heart. We covered a lot in a short clip, from Anthrop...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:41:23 GMT

Thanks to @cnni for letting me speak from the heart.

We covered a lot in a short clip, from Anthropic’s good and bad points to the possible need for a boycott and the need for international agreements around AI governance.

video.snapstream.net/Play/6qJzdzlLA…

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

Live in a sec @cnni, discussing Anthropic’s threat report and AI fears

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Multiple sources in the doomer movement: we have a strategy of government change, and don’t want to ...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:35:50 GMT

Multiple sources in the doomer movement: we have a strategy of government change, and don’t want to try anything else.

Ok, fine, but what is Plan B if Plan A doesn’t work out?

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Live in a sec @cnni, discussing Anthropic’s threat report and AI fears

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:17:23 GMT

Live in a sec @cnni, discussing Anthropic’s threat report and AI fears

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Anthropic: Most hypocritical company in history? 👉 Screams about how AI will kill everyone, while ...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:50:15 GMT

Anthropic: Most hypocritical company in history?

👉 Screams about how AI will kill everyone, while racing ahead. 

👉  Moans about distillation while distilling the world’s books, articles, and other writings.

👉  Shuts down allegedly dangerous external science projects while running the biggest, most expensive gain-of-function experiment in history.

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118M views! Must have been a left-wing psyop!!

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:35:23 GMT

118M views! 

Must have been a left-wing psyop!!

Rockstar Games@RockstarGames

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If it is, Elon, you literally in your “summoning the demon” speech at MIT helped lay the groundwork ...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:31:51 GMT

If it is, Elon, you literally in your “summoning the demon”
speech at MIT helped lay the groundwork yourself, in 2014. 

I am not a doomer but this is the maybe most bizarre, self-unaware tweet I have ever seen.

What happened to you?

Elon Musk@elonmusk

@TimSweeneyEpic@ParkerThayer I think the groundwork for this psy op (for lack of a better term) has been prepared for a long time. This was just the match that lit the fire.

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Below: @elonmusk, signer of the Pause letter, in 2014, and now.

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:31:25 GMT

Below: @elonmusk, signer of the Pause letter, in 2014,  and now.

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suggest you follow @MuskFilmFacts some truth bombs are about to drop

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:49:20 GMT

suggest you follow @MuskFilmFacts 

some truth bombs are about to drop

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don’t be surprised if 2028 is Vance vs AOC

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:38:43 GMT

don’t be surprised if 2028 is Vance vs AOC

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am here for it!

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:27:48 GMT

am here for it!

Geoffrey Miller@gmiller

@GaryMarcus@OpenAI True. Stigmatization + boycott might work better than either alone.

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we should prohibit the developer of poorly aligned AI (almost certainly dangerous) not superintellig...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:26:15 GMT

we should prohibit the developer of poorly aligned AI (almost certainly dangerous) not superintelligent AI (conceivably beneficial).

but then again we have no clue how to build aligned AI, so I understand why the industry’s completely failure to self-govern has led to this:

ControlAI@ControlAI

70+ cross-party MPs and peers are calling on the UK Prime Minister to lead an international agreement prohibiting the development of superintelligent AI, while preserving strategic AI ambitions.

They urge him to adopt the Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill.

Thread 🧵

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more safety tips from OpenAI (free version perhaps?)

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:54:48 GMT

more safety tips from OpenAI 

(free version perhaps?)

Just a dinosaur@bfgcracka

@GaryMarcus It recently feels like ChatGPT is moving backwards. Is this "AGI"?

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Yep. And then OpenAI decide to impair monitoring. Terrible idea. And the White House said *nothing....

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:36:03 GMT

Yep. And then OpenAI decide to impair monitoring. Terrible idea.

And the White House said *nothing.*

[Props to @SenBlumenthal for asking questions, though!]

Rachel Blum@groby

@2Bjeromemichael@GaryMarcus We understand sandboxing pretty well. It was very much substandard.

We understand monitoring pretty well. It was approaching nonexistent.

These are basic foundations to safety, which are well understood.

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Most people who are panicking don’t fully appreciate this point:

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:30:15 GMT

Most people who are panicking don’t fully appreciate this point:

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

Chess, go, and math are highly constrained, purely cognitive that allow exact simulation for games (and formal verification for math), and not in the open-ended physical world.

As I have been arguing for over a decade AI, AI techniques for the former are strong, for the latter they are weak. That remains true.

That said, we stupidly pushed the cognitive techniques without solving alignment. we should be extremely careful about doing the same in robotics.

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A lot of people here are either dumb or poor listeners. The immediate problem (as I have said hundr...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:56:04 GMT

A lot of people here are either dumb or poor listeners.

The immediate problem (as I have said hundred of times) is NOT AGI (we don’t have that yet), it’s reckless and unreliable AI that we can’t well control (we do have that, and it already causing problems).

Why is this soooooo hard for so many people?

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Everyone here panicking but hardly anyone is DOING anything, aside from fretting and virtue signalin...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:26:12 GMT

Everyone here panicking but hardly anyone is DOING anything, aside from fretting and virtue signaling.

If you really worry about AI, stop using the stuff and tell uour friends to do the same.

Send the companies a message: we won’t use your stuff unless you take safety seriously.

Bad numbers will hit them in the IPO, where it hurts.

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In memory of all those who lost their lives.

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:04:11 GMT

In memory of all those who lost their lives.

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Reality check/how to make sense of all these positions: • the bubble is likely to pop because the ec...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:53:48 GMT

Reality check/how to make sense of all these positions:
• the bubble is likely to pop because the economics don’t work
• the people who think that the bubble will pop mostly aren’t doomers; you are confusing different groups of people
• extinction is unlikely
• AGI is (at least for now) unlikely but catastrophic harm is likely, because agents are unreliable and are being allowed to use the internet
cc’ing @TaylorLorenz.

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i don’t see one “Doomer”endorsing this. why??? is there an error in my logic? is fretting more f...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:33:39 GMT

i don’t see one “Doomer”endorsing this.

why???

is there an error in my logic? 

is fretting more fun than taking action?

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

be honest; the labs are NEVER going to stop in their own 

governments don’t seem up to the job, either.

so it is up to us stop them.

if not by hitting them in the wallet with boycott, how?

and once they IPO’d, it will be too late. nothing will stop the labs after that.

if you want to make a difference, you need to act now.

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this is part of why the labs will never stop on their own. this is also part of why the labs will n...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:31:04 GMT

this is part of why the labs will never stop on their own.

this is also part of why the labs will never actually allow the governments to stop them.

so either we the public step up — by hitting the labs in the pocketbook right now, pre IPO, with a temporary boycott until they make substantial progress on safety — or we are screwed.

it is as simple as that.

Derek Thompson@DKThomp

Why do ppl at the labs work on a technology that they say will end the world?

Yes, they think they’re stuck in a prisoner’s dilemma. Yes, there’s an arms race status game dynamic. But don’t overlook the most basic, most human element: They’re getting rich and having fun doing something they think is important, which is more or less what most people want from their jobs.

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be honest; the labs are NEVER going to stop in their own governments don’t seem up to the job, eit...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:20:09 GMT

be honest; the labs are NEVER going to stop in their own 

governments don’t seem up to the job, either.

so it is up to us stop them.

if not by hitting them in the wallet with boycott, how?

and once they IPO’d, it will be too late. nothing will stop the labs after that.

if you want to make a difference, you need to act now.

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Chess, go, and math are highly constrained, purely cognitive that allow exact simulation for games (...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:11:34 GMT

Chess, go, and math are highly constrained, purely cognitive that allow exact simulation for games (and formal verification for math), and not in the open-ended physical world.

As I have been arguing for over a decade AI, AI techniques for the former are strong, for the latter they are weak. That remains true.

That said, we stupidly pushed the cognitive techniques without solving alignment. we should be extremely careful about doing the same in robotics.

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@connoraxiotes @clairlemon @Aella_Girl no. the strategy is to use community pressure to stop the lab...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:04:26 GMT

@connoraxiotes@clairlemon@Aella_Girl no. the strategy is to use community pressure to stop the labs from getting wealthier and more powerful and hence more likely to cause catastrophic harm.

(i personally think literal x-risk is a red herring.)

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i honestly think, @Aella_Girl, that the time has come to consider a boycott; i laid out the logic he...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:56:05 GMT

i honestly think, @Aella_Girl, that the time has come to consider a boycott; i laid out the logic here; garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-case-for…

and yes, @clairlemon, is right that I think we should focus more on catastrophic risk (which seems likely) than literal extinction (which many people including myself don’t find plausible).

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Should we boycott generative AI? eLive shortly, on @cnn w @thelauracoates, around 11:30PM ET

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:19:30 GMT

Should we boycott generative AI? eLive shortly, on @cnn w @thelauracoates, around 11:30PM ET

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i hate that the word “rationalist” has come to mean “people who believe in a specific ghost story ab...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:57:42 GMT

i hate that the word “rationalist” has come to mean “people who believe in a specific ghost story about AI”

Matt Stoller@matthewstoller

Pointing out that AI is a dangerous product is very different than suggesting AI is a uniquely dangerous product that can only be managed by a rationalist cult.

The whole point of these ghost stories is to center all policymaking around one industry.

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Again, OpenAI’s issues start at the top

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:48:31 GMT

Again, OpenAI’s issues start at the top

Dean Baker@DeanBaker13

Blaming AI is a mistake; blame Sam Altman and the people who control the AI cepr.net/publications/a…

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truth.

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:50:19 GMT

truth.

Josh R Barry@JoshRBarry

@GaryMarcus@NielsProvos@ZackKorman Security is the part of alignment that doesn't get to hide behind benchmarks.

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anyone who is taking imminent AI extinction seriously should read this thread also follow this man...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:40:15 GMT

anyone who is taking imminent AI extinction seriously should read this thread 

also follow this man; he’s consistently one of the sharpest commentators on AI.

Chomba Bupe@ChombaBupe

Let's analyze some plausible ways this apparently most dangerous software, running in some servers (that can be damaged by throwing a bucket load of water at them) can wipe humanity off the face of the earth & why each point is highly unlikely (like maybe below 1e-30 chance).

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see you can say that, without invoking extinction per se. 🙏

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:01:03 GMT

see you can say that, without invoking extinction per se. 🙏

Julie Steele@eeeeiluj

I work at OpenAI. In my personal capacity, I also think we need to slow down.

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gary marcus calls jensen’s remarks on jacob coxon’s conments “confusing and possibly overstated”, as...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:59:05 GMT

gary marcus calls jensen’s remarks on jacob coxon’s conments “confusing and possibly overstated”, asking whether any of that safety work is really solving the problem.

Brad Gerstner@altcap

Jensen calls Jacob Coxon comments outlandish & “deeply untrue.”  Said the labs are great, but his comments were wrong, arrogant, and ignorant of all the work being done around the industry to drive safety.  🧐🧐

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Terence Tao continues to bring the🔥, day after day!

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:31:04 GMT

Terence Tao continues to bring  the🔥, day after day!

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👇 All this Doom talk is a distraction from the fact that the big frontier AI companies (especially ...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:23:05 GMT

👇 All this Doom talk is a distraction from the fact that the big frontier AI companies (especially OpenAI) aren’t doing security competently. As an email I just got from longtime security engineer @NielsProvos put it, consistent with what @ZackKorman and I wrote a few weeks ago, 

“Regarding existential risk, proper infrastructure controls matter for the broader loss-of-control argument. An intelligent model does not have authority over inference, networks, credentials, or physical infrastructure. Those stay external control points even as models become more capable. We know the labs are good at detecting distillation attacks but they don't seem to have the same incentives for preventing their own agents from misbehaving.”

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common belief, for sure! but also, as i discuss in my (free) newsletter today, ridiculous, do you ...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:03:35 GMT

common belief, for sure!

but also, as i discuss in my (free) newsletter today, ridiculous,

do you @peterwildeford actually believe it? see any holes in my argument!

Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀@peterwildeford

OpenAI employee says there's 70% chance of human extinction in three years if we don't regulate or pace frontier AI development.

This is a very common view among engineers building frontier AI across all the major AI companies.

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agreed; the doomers from Hinton to Dario have been wrong about jobs. (i steered you straight.)

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:01:59 GMT

agreed; the doomers from Hinton to Dario have been wrong about jobs.

(i steered you straight.)

David Sacks@DavidSacks

“We had the gloom and doom about jobs. ‘All jobs are going away. There won't be any jobs left for humans.' All the evidence as of today is to the contrary. Every single piece of evidence. If anything, it's creating jobs. So they’re 0 for 1 on that.”

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no but they can ignore it! really dirty, but that is exactly what they are doing.

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:56:04 GMT

no but they can ignore it!

really dirty, but that is exactly what they are doing.

Holly ⏸️ Elmore@ilex_ulmus

@GaryMarcus Also, they can't dispute he worked at OpenAI for 2 years prior, no?

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one man’s satire is another man’s entire argument. most of the argument is literally this:

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:54:34 GMT

one man’s satire is another man’s entire argument.

most of the argument is literally this:

Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson

@GaryMarcus "but gary we don't have to propose any remotely plausible scenario because the AI will just be super smart and it will think of things we cannot imagine!"

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May, damn it, not six weeks. Senior, not entry level.

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:16:28 GMT

May, damn it, not six weeks.

Senior, not entry level.

Ethan Perez@EthanJPerez

Jacob was a senior researcher who joined Anthropic in May. My Anthropic colleagues and I had been trying to recruit him for ~2 years, because we knew he was a strong researcher at OpenAI. Before he left, I pitched him to stay and join my team, and I was sad he decided to leave, as are many of my colleagues. 100% agree with him that AI poses serious risks to society, and I'm glad he's speaking out!

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hysteria is absolutely crushing sobriety

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:12:16 GMT

hysteria is absolutely crushing sobriety

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If Mark Zuckerberg had a theme song it would be “Can’t buy me love”

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:03:45 GMT

If Mark Zuckerberg had a theme song it would be “Can’t buy me love”

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as promised:

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:11:01 GMT

as promised:

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030. A dissection of Jacob Coxon’s and co’s actual arguments at garymarcus.substack.com/p/no-anderson-…

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As promised, here’s my critique:

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:55:48 GMT

As promised, here’s my critique:

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030. A dissection of Jacob Coxon’s and co’s actual arguments at garymarcus.substack.com/p/no-anderson-…

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No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030. A dissection of Jacob Coxon’s and c...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:55:24 GMT

No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030. A dissection of Jacob Coxon’s and co’s actual arguments at garymarcus.substack.com/p/no-anderson-…

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not counting Sam himself who is frequently in DC

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:35:16 GMT

not counting Sam himself who is frequently in DC

Katie Miller@KatieMiller

OpenAI employs FIVE lobbying firms and has over 100 staffers in their Washington, DC office. 

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Exactly.

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:39:50 GMT

Exactly.

Jill Nephew@jillnephew

@GaryMarcus The Yudkowsky scenario is sucking all the air out of the room. They kill us all by disabling our only defense again our own self-destruction - our ability to understand what is going on around us. That's the real threat, always has been...

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Whiny unknown conspiracy guy who wonders how other unknown guy got so many views now has 5 million v...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:39:18 GMT

Whiny unknown conspiracy guy who wonders how other unknown guy got so many views now has 5 million views.

Oh, the irony. Fact is, people like some narratives.  Algorithms like outrage.

What really matters is whether they are right.

Parker Thayer@ParkerThayer

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.

2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.

Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.

And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.

What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?

3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.

It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.

4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward  with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

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As someone who thinks that existential threat is greatly exaggerated, I 100% agree with @dkthomp her...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:37:45 GMT

As someone who thinks that existential threat is greatly exaggerated, I 100% agree with @dkthomp here: enough about Coxon’s background (much of which has been lies as I noted last night). Is what he said correct, or not, and why?

[I personally will argue against him in my newsletter, later this morning.]

Derek Thompson@DKThomp

The insidery media-studies question of whether Jacob Coxon worked with other AI safety folks to draw attention to his resignation is, bafflingly, eclipsing the actually-existentially-fundamental question of whether powerful AI might be dangerous. 

I understand why people with no opinions on, or interest in, AI safety would be drawn to focus on the more gossipy aspect of the story. But (a) whistleblowing with media contacts is normal and fine; (b) dude says he didn’t do it; (c) it doesn’t matter at all if he did!

If, eg, RSI is imminent and bad, it doesn’t matter if Jacob worked with 0, 10, or 100 third parties to get his message out; he’s still in the right. 

If AI safety fears are a stupid neurotic moral panic, it also doesn’t matter if Jacob texted 0 or 10,000 people about his plans to resign; he still did something dumb and histrionic.

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Separating fact from fiction around here really has become a full-time job.

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:31:51 GMT

Separating fact from fiction around here really has become a full-time job.

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Update: Whiny unknown dude complaining about how some other unknown dude got so many views is up to ...

Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:30:59 GMT

Update: Whiny unknown dude complaining about how some other unknown dude got so many views is up to about 4M himself.  

Turns out if you have narrative people are desperate to hear, you sometimes get a lot of views.

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

This is hilarious. An unknown dude gets 1m views criticizing another unknown dude who got more.

And he pushes his agenda while bitching about other side pushing theirs.

Irony is dead.

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