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Gary Marcus

20 stories

Translating Sam

Gary MarcusVoicesTranslating Sam Wondering what Sam’s endorsement of Dario is really about?

September 15
BREAKING: Secret US AI evaluation framework has been partly revealed

Gary MarcusVoicesBREAKING: Secret US AI evaluation framework has been partly revealed Very partly

September 15
President Trump’s Date With Destiny?

Gary MarcusVoicesPresident Trump’s Date With Destiny? September 24, if played right, could change everything

September 14
Two cheers (out of three) for Dario Amodei

Gary MarcusVoicesTwo cheers (out of three) for Dario Amodei A partial endorsement of his essay “We Must Pace the Frontier”

September 13
Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?

Gary MarcusVoicesCould rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months? Dario Amodei seems to think so.

September 12
No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030

Gary MarcusVoicesNo, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030 AI is already causing harms, there are are many real risks, but constant focus on absurd end-of-the-world fantasies has made the situation worse

September 10
BREAKING: Two rays of hope

Gary MarcusVoicesBREAKING: Two rays of hope Pushing for transparency

September 10
The Case for Boycotting Generative AI

Gary MarcusVoicesThe Case for Boycotting Generative AI I believe the time has come

September 9
Two dire warnings, one from Terence Tao, the other from someone who just quit Anthropic

Gary MarcusVoicesTwo dire warnings, one from Terence Tao, the other from someone who just quit Anthropic Lots to consider

September 9
OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct

Gary MarcusVoicesOpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct Nine troubling new reports in seven days

September 8
Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions

Gary MarcusVoicesSad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions Declaring victory without a definition simply muddies the waters

September 6
Pause OpenAI, now

Gary MarcusVoicesPause OpenAI, now Quite simply, they can no longer be trusted.

September 4
Hot take on GPT-6 Astra

Gary MarcusVoicesHot take on GPT-6 Astra An impressive system that can (to some unknown extent) build symbolic world models

September 3
The new Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act – and why I oppose it

Gary MarcusVoicesThe new Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act – and why I oppose it There’s a lot to like here, but the proposal clearly goes too far.

September 3
Elon Musk is on a prediction rampage, and most of the media can’t seem to figure out what to do about it.

Gary MarcusVoicesElon Musk is on a prediction rampage, and most of the media can’t seem to figure out what to do about it. The bad news is that he’s not alone

September 2
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.

Gary MarcusVoicesRed Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline. Making models harder to monitor is not what we need

September 2
Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident

Gary MarcusVoicesDwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident When “plain English” isn’t a good thing.

August 31
5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident

Gary MarcusVoices5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident Did OpenAI really do the best they could?

August 28
Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan

Gary MarcusVoicesExcellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan The time to tame Silicon Valley has come

August 26
Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy

Gary MarcusVoicesAnthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy And you thought the SpaceX S-1 was ridiculous

August 25