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