Gary Marcus: No, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-14
Gary Marcus pushes back on the Anderson Cooper segment featuring ex-OpenAI/Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's claim humanity may not survive five more years. Marcus argues the constant focus on absurd doomsday fantasies makes dealing with AI's real, present harms worse. He defends Coxon against bad-faith smears (false claims about his Anthropic tenure, baseless labels as a Democratic operative), notes his 3 years across both labs qualify him to describe internal mindsets, and highlights Coxon's critique of frontier-lab hubris — corroborated publicly by current Anthropic employee Evan Hubinger.
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