Margaret Mitchell: the more AI-agent sagas read like fiction, the harder oversight leverage is to find
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-08-31
Gary Marcus endorsed Margaret Mitchell's take on the viral long read about secret 'AI civilizations' inside OpenAI. Mitchell wrote that the piece is a super exciting read — like a sci-fi thriller — but that's part of the problem: it is fiction, based on fact. As the lines get blurred, we lose our ability to pinpoint the technically-grounded points of leverage in AI agent oversight.
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