Gary Marcus: AGI goalpost-lowering distracted from OpenAI's serious risks
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-07
AI researcher Gary Marcus argues that those lowering the AGI goalposts have successfully distracted everyone from the serious risks and OpenAI's egregious behavior that dominated discussion just a day earlier. "Well done for them; sucks for the world," he writes.
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