Predictions can be weapons of power.
They only work if we believe them. –
@carissaveliz @TEDTalks 2026
@garymarcus
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Predictions as power tools: belief systems in AI forecasting
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Hampshire: Education Model for the AI Era
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Some of my thoughts on why I loved Hampshire and why I think it should be a model for education in the AI era.
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Ken Burns on Education, Change, and Hampshire College Value
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Ken Burns, Lynn Pasquerella, and I on education, our rapidly changing world, and the value of Hampshire College.
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Claude Code Assessment: Impressive but Still Flawed
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1. thanks, that essay is indeed very good and checks out with my take from people i trust and (my own limited experience) 2. in my tweet/substack on this I was pretty clear that i think Claude Code was impressive but still flawed. I don’t think we are disagreeing that much.
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AI responsibility and liability: ethical dilemmas in harm
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but what if he is indifferent to their deaths, and fighting liability, should i say nothing?
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AI Market Bubble Deflation: Stock Prices Fall Sharply
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Nvidia hasn’t budged in six months.
Coreweave is down 21%
Oracle is down 50%
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UK AI Security Institute Evaluates Claude Mythos Preview Safety
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Very interesting evaluation from the UK’s AI Security Institute of the not yet publicly available Claude Mythos Preview. On the happy side, in its current form, Myth is nowhere near as scary as Tom Fridman (who worries about schoolchildren accidentally taking down power grids)
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Gary Marcus evaluates Claude AI myths and capabilities
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nice work! shared it here, please DM: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/claude-mythos-evaluated?r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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Boycotts as alternative to violence for social change
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Violence is not the answer.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 13 avril 2026
But maybe boycotts are? https://t.co/l9ZCa5uwqVViolence is not the answer. But maybe boycotts are?
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Neurosymbolic AI Systems: Claude, AlphaGo, and Beyond
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Claude Code, Alphago/AlphaEvolve/AlphaProof and Google Search, code intepreter are all neurosymbolic. Amazon, and IBM have big efforts, etc. nobody has AGI of course. but some of the best stuff out there is in fact already neurosymbolic.