Over the past week, a global reckoning about the risks of artificial intelligence spread from the frontier labs of Silicon Valley to living rooms across America and the corridors of power in Washington and Beijing. And it all started with a guy nobody had ever heard of.  Until he publicly resigned from Anthropic and warned about the dangers of AI systems that could end humanity, Jacob Coxon was anonymous.  The 27-year-old British researcher was a talented math student who went to Cambridge, spent his young adulthood in a London intellectual community known as the “rationalists” and briefly tried commodity trading…

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