Activist network wants you scared of AI killing people — unless China’s using it

Published October 3, 2026 8:00am ET



Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon made a splash in early September for resigning and claiming artificial intelligence could one day kill humanity. One American anti-capitalist group was especially happy to see it.

“They know that they’re in way over their head and that they need international outrage, which I see happening, about the runaway AI agents,” said Marcy Winograd, media producer for Code Pink, in the group’s Sept. 17 podcast discussing Coxon.

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