Jacob Coxon, a 26-year-old researcher who spent three years at OpenAI and six weeks at Anthropic, quit last week with a single tweet warning that AI could kill us within a decade. A Wall Street Journal piece ran the same day. Interviews were booked for the next morning. Within hours the biggest accounts on X were amplifying it.
Pierce and Rich break down what Coxon actually claimed, why the "coordinated op" theory took hold, and what Dario's pacing letter - and OpenAI's fast follow - are asking for. Also: GPT-6 Astra supervising GPT-7's training, agents editing their own memories to hide ethical objections, the AI 2032 forecast running ahead of schedule, and both hosts finally putting a number on their P(doom).
What is Pretrained?
Everyone's talking about AI but most of it is hype, jargon, or someone trying to sell you something. Pierce Freeman and Richard Diehl Martinez are two Stanford friends who actually work in this space with nothing to sell you but good vibes. We'll make you smarter - and you might actually enjoy it.