Gary Marcus cites his 2023 Senate warning on AutoGPT to rebut doomer-prediction narrative
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-18
Gary Marcus resurfaced his May 2023 US Senate testimony to rebut the claim that "doomers were the only ones to foresee this." A month after GPT-4 shipped, OpenAI's ChatGPT plugins spawned AutoGPT-style agents; he warned then that direct internet access, source-code writing, and increased automation "may well have drastic and difficult to predict security consequences."
- He calls out Sam Altman, Tyler Cowen, and Kevin Roose for years of dismissal, and notes journalists still credit doomers—though, as far as he knows, doomers never pinpointed how things would actually unfold.
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