Gary Marcus Publishes "Pause OpenAI Now" Essay Calling for a Halt
ForHackernews · hn · 2026-09-04
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus published an essay titled Pause OpenAI Now on his Substack, openly calling for a pause on OpenAI's pace of development. The piece continues his long-running argument that frontier labs are scaling capabilities faster than safety measures, and urges slowing down until governance catches up.
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