Gary Marcus: The near-term AI disaster to fear is infinite bot-driven hacking, not rogue AI
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-18
AI critic Gary Marcus endorses a stark warning: the real near-term threat isn't rogue AI but an easy-to-execute disaster — with enough money, you can instruct an infinite number of bots to endlessly attempt every published exploit against any server on the internet.
His take:
- This is basically already happening
- It requires no superintelligence or recursive self-improvement — just tools that exist today
- We are doing essentially nothing to stop it
- It will be bad
The original poster adds that only a handful of Silicon Valley players with $1T of compute have attempted it, arguing the problem is extreme resource concentration, not AI itself.
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