Gary Marcus calls for public boycott of frontier AI labs, citing Anthropic researcher's >10% doom estimate
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-09
Gary Marcus publicly called for a boycott of frontier AI labs, arguing they are "knowingly and by their own admission" doing irreversible and dangerous work without public consent, already causing harms, with no serious mitigation plan from labs or a government "too tight with industry."
He anchors the call in Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger's statement that he earnestly believes AI could kill all humans, personally putting the risk above 10% within the next decade, and that Anthropic does not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and is not clearly on track.
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