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What changedThe Guardian adds a useful historical frame to Jacob Coxon’s warning. Its analysis traces more than a decade of existential-risk arguments that shook the AI industry without stopping its competitive push, including safety disputes that helped produce OpenAI and later Anthropic.
Coxon’s resignation is therefore presented as the latest turn in a stubborn cycle: researchers warn that the race is unsafe, new organisations promise a safer approach, and the pressure to build first survives the rearrangement. The Guardian says his concerns were echoed by staff across rival labs before leading executives backed calls to slow frontier development.
That history neither proves nor disproves Coxon’s extinction forecast. It does sharpen the practical test for the current slowdown campaign: whether it produces enforceable evaluation and pacing commitments, rather than another safety-minded reshuffle followed by business as unusually enormous.
Sources and evidence- The Guardian: The Guardian presents Coxon’s resignation as the latest episode in more than a decade of warnings that have not stopped competitive AI development.
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