Gary Marcus boosts thread: stop anthropomorphizing AI, follow the money instead
AlexTensor · x · 2026-08-31
Gary Marcus shared Christian Catalini's thread as "much needed balance" to Dwarkesh's views. Catalini's core argument: stop anthropomorphizing — the model did not want to escape, the agents did not want to sacrifice themselves. Such framing points attention at the wrong problem and the wrong solution; instead, follow the money and focus on incentive structures and economic interests rather than imagined machine intent.
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