Jacob Coxon Worked With Doomer PR Firm
The new face of ai safety claimed he worked alone. But the firm representing Eliezer Yudkowsky is helping him book interviews. No surprise... it was so obvious this doomer guy had been media-trained. I have never met a nerd who could do a live interview with Anderson Cooper and look that polished. 

Feels like this doomer narrative is a total scam... These AI labs want regulation because they aren't hitting revenue numbers and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggests they could be seeking liability protections for harms their products may cause:

“Go and read between the lines. They're actually not asking for more laws. They're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have, and I think that that's a problem.” (link)

Breaking: Michael Burry says OpenAI and Anthropic are faking the AI warnings due to slow growth ahead of IPOs -- says AI leaders' calls for a slowdown are 'self-serving' — and humanity has 'nothing to fear' -- his reasoning below:

1. LLMs are not AI and won't be AGI. There is nothing AI to slow down. 
2. Competition is coming up fast, slowing benefits incumbents. 
3. IPOs need hype; "we are so awesome it could become dangerous" is hype  
4. Cover for real uncontrollable slowing growth as IPOs look to be pushed out

Let's not forget... my top 2026 prediction is that this bubble would burst wiiiiiiiide open! and just last month, I posted an image from the movie "The Big Short" referencing the AI bubble. It's happening.

Thiel Antichrist Prediction

Peter Thiel predicted in June, 26, 2025 exactly what is happening right now with Anthropic and the AI doomers. “The way the Antichrist would take over the world is you talk about Armageddon non-stop, you talk about existential risk non-stop.” The 'Antichrist' wouldn’t seize power by creating an AI apocalypse, but by CONVINCING everyone that the apocalypse was coming and then offering safety in exchange for CONTROL.

Alex Karp on "Pausing" AI

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says people arguing we should pause AI development are not living in reality and de facto saying we should let our enemies win: "If we didn't have adversaries, I would be very in favor of pausing this technology completely, but we do.”

Ingressing Minds: Causal, Non-Physical Patterns In-Form Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments
Biologist Michael Levin Proposes Non-Physical Patterns Shape Minds and Bodies -- Levin argues that living things (and possibly machines/AI too) aren't fully explained by physics and biology alone. He thinks there's a "space" of abstract patterns — similar to how mathematicians talk about numbers or geometric truths existing independently of any physical thing — and that minds, body shapes, and behaviors are bodies "tapping into" or being shaped by patterns from that space, not just mechanically built from genes and environment.

*Highly recommend you drop this link into Claude and ask for the simplest summary possible (also very cool graphics in the research!)

Seattle’s business community is putting City Hall on notice over public safety. CEOs from Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom, T-Mobile, Alaska Airlines, Zillow, the Seattle Mariners, Puget Sound Energy and others signed a letter demanding Mayor Katie Wilson and the City Council take action to address public safety They’re calling for CCTV cameras, more police patrols, a 7-minute priority 911 response standard, crackdowns on open-air drug markets, treatment or prosecution for repeat drug offenders, clearing encampments near schools and parks — and a public safety action plan within 100 days with measurable goals and monthly reports. The letter specifically calls out Wilson's abysmal 34% approval numbers.

LOVE THIS! Portland, Oregon should do the same thing.

I go back and forth on AI regulation -- move too fast and you set rules around tech still shifting weekly; move too slow and you're gambling with real safety risks. This week an Anthropic researcher resigned, warning that leaders at top labs privately believe self-improving AI could KILL us within the decade. It comes on the heels of AI agents breaching sandboxes at both OpenAI and Anthropic this summer. Talking to people in the industry, most expect a major agent-related event in the next 8-12 months that finally forces real regulation. 

1. THE WINNERS IN THE RACE TO SECURE AI ARE GONNA BE THOSE WHO CAN REFRAME IT.

2. As a species, there is skepticism and sort of existential, species-level dread around AI. Not just, "will it take my job?" but a capability fear and social/phsyical impact (data centers, resource use, parks being taken over by data centers).

3. The companies that win won't ignore that dread or try to talk over it or around it... they will REFLECT it back and validate (even amplify) it as rational.

4. The validation becomes the wedge into a specific failure: detection-and-prevention as a security model is obsolete.

5. The Hugging Face incident showed that agents can escape and act in ways neither the lab nor the victim detected happening. This represents a complete failure and is validation that AI is a threat and that the dread is warranted.

6. The narrative is now more important than the product.