Gary Marcus: Declaring AGI before we can build trustworthy agents is total nonsense
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-08
Responding to a claim that the gap to AGI is merely people's trust in agents, Gary Marcus pushed back sharply: if we actually had AGI, we would trust agents. Declaring AGI before building agents we can rely on is, in his words, total nonsense — continuing his long-running argument that current agent unreliability is real evidence against AGI claims.
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