AI Panic Takes a Page From Medieval Millenarianism

The Mainstream Media has finally caught up with The Watchtower, the Jehovah’s Witnesses signature publication, and turned the spotlight on the end of the world. Jacob Coxon quit his job at the AI giant Anthropic in despair, tweeting that people in the industry believe that there is a more than 10% chance of the technology destroying humanity in the next decade; Evan Hubinger, a serving Anthropic executive, tweeted that “Jacob is correct here”; and, lo and behold, columns and editorials on the en