AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-and-paste meme

Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who resigned after four months, warned that AI firms were racing toward self-improving superintelligence that could cause human extinction by decade’s end, noting AI would soon hack anything, revolutionize fields overnight, and seize power. His tweet, viewed over 150 million times, spawned a meme format where tech workers mimic the dramatic resignation but replace the existential threat with absurd “catastrophes,” leading to dozens of parody posts across the industry.