Gary Marcus: 'Rogue agents' is a generous framing for irresponsibly built software
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-18
Gary Marcus endorses Neil Turkewitz's argument that the AI industry's favorite term "rogue agents" obscures a simpler reality: we are talking about irresponsibly developed and operated software.
According to Turkewitz, the framing is infinitely more generous to AI companies than that description — it embraces their power while excusing their failure to control their own systems, since who can anticipate and control a 'rogue agent'? Marcus suggests this explains why the industry leans on the narrative.
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