What's Behind the AI Panic
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- In September 2026, a viral resignation tweet from Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon claimed AI could exterminate humanity within 10 years, sparking a moral panic amplified by influential figures and media.
- The panic prompted calls for government regulation, with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and politicians like Bernie Sanders endorsing oversight or proposing bans on superintelligent AI.
- The article argues this is a manufactured hysteria by the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, which seeks global technocratic governance and has previously used similar tactics for climate and Bitcoin.
- The real target is open-source AI, which empowers individuals; the panic aims to create an AI oligopoly benefiting frontier labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI.
- The author encourages readers to build local compute capacity and use open-source models, framing the choice as 'AI Doom vs AI Boom' and urging rejection of fear campaigns.