Quotesby GlyphGary Marcus quotes on AI, with sources
Author and cognitive scientist · 7 quotes · latest 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Everytime they scream that AI is going to kill us all, VCs toss in billions more.
- None of the AI safety work Doomers have sponsored has led to a demonstrated, implemented solution to the core problem.
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