Gary Marcus challenges AI doomers: will we really go extinct in five years?
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-14
- Gary Marcus challenges AI doomers: do they actually believe extinction is five years away, or is that just what Jacob Coxon is telling the media?
- In the quoted reply, gmiller calls it a straw man: very few doomers have high confidence in five-year timelines, which are typically much longer and slower.
- gmiller's key argument: whether humanity goes extinct from AI in 5 years or 50, from an evolutionary perspective it is equally calamitous.
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