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- 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
- The literal enshittification of The United StatesFeb 11, 2026Gary Marcus
I wish I could say this was satire.
- BREAKING: LLM “reasoning” continues to be deeply flawedFeb 10, 2026Gary Marcus
A new review underscores the breadth of the problem, and shows that close to a trillion dollars hasn’t changed that
- Some disconcerting facts about AI and banking that may have profound consequencesFeb 10, 2026Gary Marcus
Disturbing new numbers
- Super Bowl Matchup: Anthropic vs OpenAIFeb 08, 2026Gary Marcus
You don’t have to be a football fan to enjoy the ads