Gary Marcus: No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-10
Gary Marcus pushes back on Anderson Cooper's interview with ex-OpenAI/Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who claimed humanity might not survive five years. Marcus defends Coxon from right-wing smears (AI-generated inaccurate profiles, unproven political-operative claims), credits the thread for revealing frontier-lab hubris corroborated by current Anthropic employee Evan Hubinger, but stresses the media rarely separates Coxon's verified claims from speculation, and that apocalyptic fantasies obscure real, present AI harms.
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