New series from The Observer with @Yoshua_Bengio
, me, and others on potential catastrophic risks in AI. (link at bottom of thread)
@garymarcus
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New Observer series on catastrophic AI risks with Bengio, Marcus
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Gary Marcus warns pausing AI is a choice, refusal leads to harm
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It is not literally impossible to pause or slow down. It is a choice. But if the “frontier labs” continue to refuse to do, I strongly believe it will eventually lead to tremendous harm. (Essentially every warning I have issued like this has come to pass; I am afraid this one
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Marcus warns pausing AI is a choice, refusal leads to harm
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It is not literally impossible to pause or slow down. It is a choice. But if the “frontier labs” continue to refuse to do, I strongly believe it will eventually lead to tremendous harm. (Essentially every warning I have issued like this has come to pass; I am afraid this one
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OpenAI criticized for losing lead and credibility to Anthropic
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OpenAI is hosed. There is almost no reason to prefer them over Anthropic, they have lost their lead (despite every advantage in the world), they have made commitments far far beyond their means, their leader has lost credibility, and they don’t have a plausible plan for becoming… https://t.co/9fDsAplXB2
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 9 juin 2026OpenAI is hosed. There is almost no reason to prefer them over Anthropic, they have lost their lead (despite every advantage in the world), they have made commitments far far beyond their means, their leader has lost credibility, and they don’t have a plausible plan for becoming
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Debate on AI reasoning: Marcus hopes for Dwarkesh response
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what constitutes reasoning in AI is a critical debate. i hope that @dwarkesh_sp will respond.
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Fable’s safety guardrails broken within an hour; no surprise.
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fable’s safety guardrails broken within an hour. raise your hand if you are surprised.
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Gary Marcus: Justine’s answer sounds like AI slop, not AGI
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justine may kid about being bullied, but the answer sure sounds more like 2026 LLM-powered-AI slop than AGI to me.
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Gary Marcus questions unfalsifiable ‘real deal’ claim about LLMs
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what does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the evidence?
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 9 juin 2026
and if you can agree that “If you ask an LLM a question it can't answer, sometimes it will just try to imitate reasoning without doing it”, why acknowledge the… https://t.co/4DtoGvFCCJwhat does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp
, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the evidence? and if you can agree that “If you ask an LLM a question it can't answer, sometimes it will just try to imitate reasoning without doing it”, why acknowledge the -
Anthropic protects its own IP while using others’ IP freely
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Anthropic didn’t just add guardrails to make Mythos safer; they added guardrails to protect their own IP. *Their own IP*. They are still as happy as fuck to build their AI on other people’s IP.
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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos goes from dangerous to public in two months
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Claude Mythos went from “too dangerous to release” to publicly available (with some extra guard rails) in two months. And y’all fell for Anthropic’s whole routine. Again.