All articles from Gary Marcus
Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt”
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
How AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled humanity
The road to where we are now was (mostly) paved with good intentions — but mixed with too much uncritical acceptance of hype.
Is AI already killing people by accident?
The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school children in Iran could have been the result
The whole thing was a scam
The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.
Did Trump just overplay his hand?
We will learn a lot about Silicon Valley in the upcoming days
Does OpenAI’s new financing make sense?
I am not alone in seriously doubting it
Historic statement from Dario Amodei
hat tip to Kylie Robison.
Retired US Air Force General Jack Shanahan on the Anthropic-Pentagon tensions
”No LLM, anywhere, in its current form, should be considered for use in a fully lethal autonomous weapon system. It's ludicrous even to suggest it.”
America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice.
Call you Congresspeople, right now.
Code Red for Humanity?
The Trump administration is literally playing with fire.
Marilyn (Molly) Marcus, 1942-2026
Some things I learned — and still hope to learn — from my mother
Turns out Generative AI was a scam
Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be