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In a September 2026 poll titled “Will Anthropic and OpenAI succeed in meaningfully slowing frontier AI progress…”, participants were asked whether these companies could significantly slow development

Mayor Mamdani just torched Trump's government for turning a blind eye to AI threats: 'Like many Americans across the country, the news coming out of this technology in recent days and weeks has been i

Michael Burry is saying exactly what i have been saying, for ages. The AI industry better hope we are both wrong Breaking: Michael Burry says OpenAI and Anthropic are faking the AI warnings due to slo

okay wow. per folks there, Trump called Jensen huang in the middle of his interview and jensen put the phone on speakerphone Jensen thanked trump for his social media post this morning pouring cold wa

short summary of GPT-6 Astra and why it doesn’t bail OpenAI out of its economic mess: they have made lots of progress (partly using neurosymbolic techniques!) on problems that can be formally verified

This reaction (not the specific post but the overall take), entirely out of touch with the American public, will be Trump’s final undoing. A gift to the dems in the midterms, though. President Trump's

A brilliant suggestion by @GaryMarcus because, in the end, companies are offering AI as a product. It can be recalled or its deployment paused; its manufacturers can be held to account for its failure

Actually, Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess), “there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future. It's not at all an exaggeration” is itself a wild exaggeration. I laid out exactly why

Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes dist

Gary Marcus tweeted that OpenAI and Anthropic do not want to become the next failed premium device like Juicero. He warns of the risk of offering an overpriced, niche product that fails to catch on. C

Seems like the intersection of the recent @OpenAI rogue swarm hacking incident (https://x.com/adamsafron/status/2098938666408407118) with solving Navier–Stokes has created a perfect storm of terror ab

Slowdown or no, OpenAI and Anthropic are like someone trying to sell billions of bottles of Perrier at £1,000 each. OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to sell us Perrier water at £1,000 a bottle in a wor

Why people who monger fear about AI and ask the (rest of the) world to slow down are always the ones who invest enormously in AI and constantly advance it at an ever faster pace? Can their words still

A second way in which Dario’s letter does not hold up to close inspection. (See my newsletter for the first.) In his Pacing AI letter, Dario claims that RSI is starting to happen. The problem with thi

alternative theory: people who are good at training LLMs aren’t necessarily equally competent at calculating expected value. I cannot imagine the cognitive dissonance it would take to keep working in

Could swarms of AI bots actually take over the internet in six months, as Dario Amodei just suggested? @nathanhamiel @ZackKorman and I take a look. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-rogue-agent-

If Anthropic is hypocritical, OpenAI is just incompetent. We found another cyberattack by internal OpenAI agents, this time targetting @rubygems. They: 1) gained arbitrary remote code execution on rub

In his Pacing AI letter, Dario claims that RSI is starting to happen. The problem with this statement is that both the blog posts he links to *and* the system cards for the latest Claude and ChatGPT m

It’s vital that, at this pivotal moment in the AI debate, that we start asking serious questions about Dario Amodei’s basic technical literacy. Could swarms of AI bots actually take over the internet

Much of the claim's premise is vague and doesn't make sense. We discuss the claim here and try to add some context. Could swarms of AI bots actually take over the internet in six months, as Dario Amod

Our take: Could swarms of AI bots actually take over the internet in six months, as Dario Amodei just suggested? @nathanhamiel @ZackKorman and I take a look. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-ro

so far anyway it’s all math, presumably leaning heavily on Lean and brute force. the new results don’t mean that AGI is in general has been solved. and the G is for general, not math. every time I hav

This is the beginning of AI disruption. A new social contract with using of AI needs to be established. There will be more to come like math. 🚨 OpenAI fucked with the wrong crew. 🚨 Mathematicians. 25

You can’t have a real slowdown and be a total China hawk. If you are truly committed to the slowdown, you have to make a deal. I was initially encouraged by reports that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is

Again, OpenAI’s issues start at the top Blaming AI is a mistake; blame Sam Altman and the people who control the AI https://cepr.net/publications/ai-didnt-steal-the-mathematicians-work-sam-altman-did/

Anthropic: Most hypocritical company in history? 👉 Screams about how AI will kill everyone, while racing ahead. 👉 Moans about distillation while distilling the world’s books, articles, and other writi

As far as I can tell Gavin Baker is just making stuff up. Few if any of the people who left OpenAI for similar reasons ever came back. Not @DKokotajlo @sjgadler @Miles_Brundage @ilyasut @suchirbalaji,

Chess, go, and math are highly constrained, purely cognitive that allow exact simulation for games (and formal verification for math), and not in the open-ended physical world. As I have been arguing

In September 2026, Zack Korman tweeted that employees were leaving Anthropic while he voiced fear that unchecked AI could jeopardize the lives of “8 billion people.” He argued for a light‑touch regula

@GaryMarcus @SethCronin Pynchon's 1984 warning from his pro-Luddite essay: 'If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come – you heard it here first – when the curves of re

I don't agree with Gary very often, but that one's spot on. When you read what's available on the incident with a lens of security engineering, you should be absolutely *livid* over the exploit route.

Gary Marcus posted a tweet about additional safety tips that may apply to the free version of OpenAI’s model. Responding user @bfgcracka noted that ChatGPT seemed to be “moving backwards” and asked if

“right now, AI companies are underinvesting in safety” might prove to be the understatement of the century. I left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago. Now feels like a good moment to explain why. A

On September 11, 2026, Gary Marcus tweeted that a CNN eLive session with Lauren Coates would air at approximately 11:30 PM ET to discuss whether generative AI should be boycotted. The tweet includes t

Thanks to @cnni for letting me speak from the heart. We covered a lot in a short clip, from Anthropic’s good and bad points to the possible need for a boycott and the need for international agreements

The Hugging Face incidents has already proved that you can have harmful, infrastructure-attacking AI without getting to AGI, RSI, or superintelligence, let alone the so-called Singularity. And already

👇 All this Doom talk is a distraction from the fact that the big frontier AI companies (especially OpenAI) aren’t doing security competently. As an email I just got from longtime security engineer @Ni

common belief, for sure! but also, as i discuss in my (free) newsletter today, ridiculous, do you @peterwildeford actually believe it? see any holes in my argument! OpenAI employee says there's 70% ch

“Everyone killed” still seems to me to be an unrealistic exaggeration; I still don’t see a plausible path to that. OpenAI and Anthropic researchers agree: their approach to AI development could get ev

Forty years ago the first worm 'escaped' containment and breached systems on the brand new Internet. It was illegal then and it's illegal now. If Anthropic and OpenAI are creating worms, labeling it '

I'm no one special. But after the mathematicians and OpenAI debacle I've decided to cancel all of my cloud AI subscriptions. I know that's radical and crazy by today's standards...as of five minutes a

Incredible how people are making up different numbers of weeks/months for how long Coxon worked at Anthropic to assassinate his character. The only credible source (@MadisonMills22 @axios who spoke wi

Jacob was a senior researcher who joined Anthropic in May. My Anthropic colleagues and I had been trying to recruit him for ~2 years, because we knew he was a strong researcher at OpenAI. Before he le

May, damn it, not six weeks. Senior, not entry level. Jacob was a senior researcher who joined Anthropic in May. My Anthropic colleagues and I had been trying to recruit him for ~2 years, because we k

not counting Sam himself who is frequently in DC OpenAI employs FIVE lobbying firms and has over 100 staffers in their Washington, DC office. They must push for AI legislation to justify their existen

OpenAI hid the details of the wiki incident from the investigators of the later HuggingFace hack. When caught, they responded only with corporate BS. This cover-up of unprecedentedly misaligned behavi