Gary Marcus quotes on AI, with sources

Author and cognitive scientist · 7 quotes · latest Sep 18, 2026

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Date	Quote	Context	Source
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.Sep 18, 2026· Post	PostWake up, people: what we should actually fear	Source
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.Sep 13, 2026· Post	PostTwo cheers out of three for Dario	Source
Sep 13, 2026	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.Sep 13, 2026· Post	PostTwo cheers out of three for Dario	Source
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.Sep 13, 2026· Post	PostTwo cheers out of three for Dario	Source
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.Sep 10, 2026· Post	PostNo, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill us all	Source
Sep 10, 2026	Everytime they scream that AI is going to kill us all, VCs toss in billions more.Sep 10, 2026· Post	PostNo, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill us all	Source
Sep 10, 2026	None of the AI safety work Doomers have sponsored has led to a demonstrated, implemented solution to the core problem.Sep 10, 2026· Post	PostNo, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill us all	Source

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