Gary Marcus

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

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)

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 AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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

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

Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competition like web search was [...]. But everybody is building essentially the same technical solution with essentially the same data, so there is no moat. I... more AI Verified source (2026)

Plot the same improvements on a linear y-axis and you get steady incremental gains, impressive but not the hockey stick that triggered the panic. [...] We don't have evidence that Mythos is actually an important step towards broad superintelligence. AI Verified source (2026)

Consciousness is about internal states; the mimicry, no matter how rich, proves very little. [...] consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it feels. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. AI Verified source (2026)

There's a problem in the industry called the alignment problem. How do you get a machine to obey instructions basically, and ideally make it compatible with humans. And so far, we've made almost no progress on that. [...] We as a field have made almo... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)