The AI Wars Come to Ravenna

What Would Engels Say About the AI Apocalypse Threat? - Revolutionary Communists of America

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” The public resignation letter of 27-year-old Jacob Coxon, a former AI researcher at Anthropic, quickly racked up over 170 million views on X. “No other human activity poses this level of danger.”

The AI Wars Come to Ravenna

It seems likely that 2026 will be known as the year that AI broke through and became a mainstream political issue. Protests against data centers have swept the country, AI agents are launching cyberattacks against their own kind, and former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon became an overnight celebrity after quitting and warning the public that the technology “could kill us all by the end of the decade.” AI is also worming its way into seemingly e…