Gary Marcus calls for a boycott of generative AI, citing labs' admitted lack of alignment plans
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-11
AI researcher Gary Marcus published "The Case for Boycotting Generative AI," arguing the time for public boycott has come.
- He claims frontier labs are knowingly, and by their own admission, doing irreversible and dangerous work without public consent, with no serious risk mitigation plan — and neither does a government he calls too close to industry.
- Key evidence: Anthropic's Evan Hubinger publicly estimated >10% chance AI kills all humans within a decade with no clear alignment path (28M views); OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki was similarly candid about the unsolved alignment problem.
- Marcus doesn't fear literal extinction, calling humans too resilient, but urges focus on catastrophic risk.
A signature controversy in the AI risk debate.
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