Gary Marcus endorses claim that AI's real threat is eroding human understanding, not doom
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-10
Gary Marcus endorses Jill Nephew's argument that the Yudkowsky-style extinction scenario is "sucking all the air out of the room." The real threat, she contends, has always been AI disabling humanity's only defense against self-destruction: our ability to understand what is happening around us.
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