Gary Marcus amplifies take: AI development is an unregulated gain-of-function experiment
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-12
Gary Marcus retweeted virologist Florian Krammer's framing that the whole AI development is "one big Gain of Function experiment that nobody regulates" — comparing frontier AI capability scaling to high-risk biological research running with no oversight.
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