All articles from Gary Marcus

A few dark words about chatbots and death

Content warning: this article includes discussion of suicide.

How Generative AI is destroying society

An astonishingly lucid new paper that should be read by all

The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman

Bad news from Apple yesterday highlights OpenAI’s eroding lead

Let’s be honest, Generative AI isn’t going all that well

A sampling of recent news

The Worst Person in Tech

2025’s winner has taken a huge early lead in 2026 that will be hard to beat

Breaking: Marcus weighs in (mostly) for LeCun

LeCun’s ugly departure from Meta - and why I mostly sympathize with him (but nonetheless doubt he will succeed at his new gig)

The (possibly) coming AI backlash and information warfare

Excerpts from two recent essays.

Why ChatGPT can’t be trusted with breaking news

A new case in point