The AI Doom Memo Became a Resignation Meme

This cartoon music video turns a serious AI-resignation warning into the week’s office-meme anthem. Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who had also worked at OpenAI, resigned on September 8 and warned that the companies were racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Within days, users on X had copied the warning’s solemn structure, then replaced the danger with workplace absurdities such as a self-painting fake tunnel or self-closing books. 12

The original warning was serious. The song makes fun of the internet’s rapid tonal turn: a dramatic resignation template becomes a chorus for printers, staplers, and office equipment acting like the new frontier threat. A September 9 post reproducing Coxon’s September 8 thread records his claim that he had spent three years in pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic. 3