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Comment by Gary Marcus
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
5mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
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Verified via web search. Gary Marcus's position that "current AI is a threat to democracy, but not a threat to humanity" is extensively documented from his May 2023 Senate testimony, AFP interviews, and France24 coverage. He explicitly said extinction risk is "overblown" and that he's not personally concerned about existential risk. Marcus is correctly identified as Professor of Psychology/Neural Science (NYU). Vote "against" aligns with the statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" — Marcus argues AI is NOT a threat to humanity. Source URL (Business Standard article about Tegmark's 50% prediction) is blocked by WebFetch but likely includes Marcus's counter-position; the substance of the quote is well-documented across multiple 2023 sources.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 3d ago
replying to Gary Marcus