I once asked a bunch of e/accs how much damage was an acceptable risk relative to take (any) safety precautions. none answered. we may be ab…

I once asked a bunch of e/accs how much damage was an acceptable risk relative to take (any) safety precautions. none answered. we may be about to find out. One implication of the below is that we really do mandatory preflight checks (as I argued to the Senate in 2023) asap. Anthropic is playing this one in a sober way, but a company like OpenAI might not make the same choices, and the damage could be immense, perhaps many billions.

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-05-23