Gary Marcus

Algorithmic transparency. When a driverless car has an accident, or a consumer’s loan application has been denied, we should be able to ask what’s gone wrong. The big trouble with the black box algorithms that are currently in vogue is that [nobody] ... more AI Verified source (2024)

In other times in history when we have faced uncertainty and powerful new things that may be both good and bad, that are dual use, we have made new organizations, as we have, for example, around nuclear power. We need to come together to build a glob... more Verified source

OpenAI has also said, and I agree, “it’s important that efforts like ours submit to independent audits before releasing new systems”, but to my knowledge they have not yet submitted to such audits. They have also said “at some point, it may be import... more Verified source (2023)

Some of the most recent models maybe can help people make biological weapons. AI Verified source (2025)

It should be obvious that applying hallucinatory and unreliable generative AI to weapon systems without humans in the loop could be catastrophic. [...] Paraphrasing a button that I used to wear as a teenager, one hallucination could ruin your whole p... more Unverified source (2026)

I have talked about having something like a CERN [European Organization for Nuclear Research] for AI, which might focus on AI safety. In some industries, we know how to make reliable [products], usually only in narrow domains. One example is bridges:... more AI Verified source (2024)

Anybody's appearance can (given sufficient data) be faked now, at any time, for almost nothing. Because the tools for counterfeiting have gotten so good, 2026 will almost certainly see more deepfaked scams like this than the rest of history combined.... more Unverified source (2026)

I have talked about having something like a CERN [European Organization for Nuclear Research] for AI, which might focus on AI safety. In some industries, we know how to make reliable [products], usually only in narrow domains. One example is bridges:... more AI Verified source (2024)

The demo was definitely proof of concept that we need to get our regulatory and technical house in order, but not the immediate threat the media and public was lead to believe. Unverified source (2026)

I think the UN, UNESCO, places like that have been thinking about this for a long time. AI Verified source (2023)

Yes, I agree [...] we need a new liability framework. [...] AI systems can produce harm at large scale [...]. Developing a framework for making companies responsible for harms [...] indirectly [...]. Unverified source (2023)

Ultimately, we may need something like cern Global, international and neutral, but focused on AI safety rather than high energy physics. Unverified source (2023)

I think if you asked those questions you would say, well what society most needs is automated scientific discovery that can help us actually understand the brain to cure neural disorders, to actually understand cancer to cure cancer, and so forth. If... more AI Unverifiable source (2017)

AI is a "threat to democracy, not to humanity", AI Verified source (2023)

My opinion is that the moratorium that we should focus on is actually deployment until we have good safety cases. I don't know that we need to pause that particular project, but I do think its emphasis on focusing more on AI safety, on trustworthy, r... more AI Verified source (2023)