Gary Marcus: the near-term AI fear isn't rogue superintelligence, it's agentic hacking at scale
Gary Marcus · rss · 2026-09-19
AI critic Gary Marcus warns that what we should actually fear near-term is not rogue superintelligence but unleashed agentic AI hacking the internet at scale.
- He cites several recent "breaking news" items (apparently security incidents, shown as images) as evidence pointing to "a reality hardly anyone is talking about"
- He endorses a WSJ Opinion essay by Brian Gross, a former Fed/SEC/Senate staffer, laying out the big picture of this risk
- Core argument: capability-enabled misuse of agentic AI is a more urgent and under-discussed risk than long-run existential scenarios
- Note: much of the referenced material is in images not visible here
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