A dispute over AI doomsday warnings and climate risk

Fox News says former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told Sean Hannity that past catastrophic warnings amounted to “fear mongering,” but argued AI was different because of its rapid advance: “We won't have time to respond to it before it's too late.”

The comparison drew criticism. One commenter called AI extinction warnings a distraction from serious present-day threats and accused their proponents of downplaying climate risk. Another said effective altruists had compared them to a climate denier while themselves portraying AI as a greater existential risk than climate change.