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Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift

aired Sep 11, 2026
Signal
72.3/ 100
Solid
confidence 0.99
Orig47.5
Actn83.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty57.7
Summary

Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline Monologue. I'm Speaker 1: your host, Ed Zitron.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of speaker, these, it's, including: I'm Speaker 1: your host, Ed Zitron.

Key takeaways
  1. 01claims that he quit, Speaker 1: to quote the Wall Street Journal, because he doesn't want Speaker 1: to participate in an industry-wide rush to build AI systems Speaker 1: that can
  2. 02In an interview with Wired, Coxon spoke at length, Speaker 1: without really explaining what it was he was scared about, Speaker 1: outside of one moment where Max Zeff asked for s
  3. 03But the Speaker 1: fact that Coxon is bringing it up in the run-up Speaker 1: to Anthropix IPO, and as the rest of the AI Speaker 1: hogs oink about it non-stop, makes it impossibl
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