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- BREAKING: Sam Altman’s greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to himMar 07, 2026Gary Marcus
It’s about time
- Don’t trust Generative AI to do your taxes — and don’t trust it with people’s livesMar 05, 2026Gary Marcus
“The problem comes down to how A.I. chatbots are fundamentally designed”
- Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt”Mar 03, 2026Gary Marcus
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
- How AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled humanityMar 02, 2026Gary Marcus
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?Mar 01, 2026Gary Marcus
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 of AI.
- Did Trump just overplay his hand?Feb 27, 2026Gary Marcus
We will learn a lot about Silicon Valley in the upcoming days
- Does OpenAI’s new financing make sense?Feb 27, 2026Gary Marcus
I am not alone in seriously doubting it
- Retired US Air Force General Jack Shanahan on the Anthropic-Pentagon tensionsFeb 26, 2026Gary Marcus
”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.Feb 26, 2026Gary Marcus
Call you Congresspeople, right now.
- Code Red for Humanity?Feb 25, 2026Gary Marcus
The Trump administration is literally playing with fire.
- Marilyn (Molly) Marcus, 1942-2026Feb 24, 2026Gary Marcus
Some things I learned — and still hope to learn — from my mother
- Turns out Generative AI was a scamFeb 23, 2026Gary Marcus
Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be
- Rumors of AGI’s arrival have been greatly exaggeratedFeb 17, 2026Gary Marcus
Statistical approximation ≠ general intelligence
- We URGENTLY need a federal law forbidding AI from impersonating humansFeb 14, 2026Gary Marcus
Daniel Dennett was right
- Irony, Irony laced with Karma, and TerrorFeb 13, 2026Gary Marcus
Brief updates on some previous stories
- Breaking: OpenAI is probably toastFeb 13, 2026Gary Marcus
Will OpenAI someday be seen as the WeWork of AI, as I have suggested several times, as far as back as late 2023? I still think so, and I think that moment is drawing close. They have, by any reasonable standard, seen rough times of late. Google and Anthropic have each largely caught up; various Chinese companies are closing in. More and more questions are being raised about their financing. (And m
- About that Matt Shumer post that has nearly 50 million viewsFeb 11, 2026Gary Marcus
Something big is allegedly happening