The Coxon resignation timeline is weirder than the “AI will kill us” part

The resignation of Coxon has sparked discussion, with many finding the timeline of events more peculiar than the AI extinction concerns. In 2022, Coxon received a long-term future scholarship from Good Ventures, an organization funded by Moskovitz, who also invests in Anthropic and supports AI safety advocacy. Coxon was also part of the 2021 Newspeak House fellowship, a civic tech college with EA-adjacent funding. This background information is prompting curiosity about the sequence of events rather than the familiar extinction narrative.

This report highlights the specific financial and institutional ties of Coxon to AI safety advocacy and Anthropic, unlike other accounts focusing solely on the AI extinction narrative.