Home Speakers Gary Marcus Quote I hope they will sign in blood, and put actual teeth in their agreement, and that the government will hold them to it and force it to become something substantive.
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More from Gary Marcus Blog Wake up, people: what we should actually fear Sep 18, 2026
What we should actually fear, near term, is not so much rogue superintelligence as unleashed agentic AI causing hacking the internet at scale. Blog Two cheers out of three for Dario Sep 13, 2026
AI is not really going to take down the internet, and (as discussed in another earlier essay) it’s not going to cure cancer either, at least not anytime soon or on its own. Blog Two cheers out of three for Dario Sep 13, 2026
We should all salute their tentative agreement to slow down the acceleration of this technology, given that not one of the AI companies seems to have good control over it. Blog No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill us all Sep 10, 2026
But in my view, the net effect of the last decade of “Doomer” talk (Coxon appears to be a card-carrying member of that party) has been to make the Frontier AI companies wealthier and more powerful. Blog No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill us all Sep 10, 2026
Everytime they scream that AI is going to kill us all, VCs toss in billions more. Blog No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill us all Sep 10, 2026
None of the AI safety work Doomers have sponsored has led to a demonstrated, implemented solution to the core problem.
On the same topics Talk Speech at the UN Security Council Sep 23, 2026
Frontier AI should be licensed like other critical technologies; medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy, to incentivize safe development. Talk Speech at the UN Security Council Sep 23, 2026
The race is not a law of nature: it is the product of choices, choices made by the companies themselves. Talk Speech at the UN Security Council Sep 23, 2026
We must agree collectively that no one, no company and no country, should develop an AI system that could cause large-scale harm. Blog Banning self-recursive improvement in AI models? Sep 22, 2026
Even if you believe in a deal with China, and I do not, we (and others) now know competitors can catch up more quickly than we had thought, at least if they think they have a chance of winning. Blog Banning self-recursive improvement in AI models? Sep 22, 2026
If the top U.S. labs have to give up on what is supposed to be really important, they will look very “catchable.” The policy creates a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute. Press Launch of the roadmap of the Coalition for Children's Rights and Protection in the Age of AI Sep 22, 2026
AI must not be placed in the hands of children without first being tested, evaluated, and therefore authorized. About this quote 
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