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Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign (pivot-to-ai.com)
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to keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IoTZNN6iM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260910-jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai-doomsday-media-campaign - podcast

time: 6 min 20 sec

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[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

She's also Paul Chistiano's spouse.

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Never heard of him and can't find him in the archives of SneerClub or TechTakes just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Christiano

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He was once Dario Amodei's roommate. He also cofounded the Alignment Research Center (funded in part by a sizable FTX donation), which spun off METR, the organization Cotra now works at.