Gary Marcus pushes back on AI doom: humans decide what AI can do, not the technology
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-19
Gary Marcus highlights a rebuttal to Claire Lemon's essay tracing AI doomerism back to Yudkowsky's 90s mailing-list origins: "AI systems do not build their own data centres, manufacture their own chips or connect themselves to power grids. Humans decide which systems can access the internet, control machinery, move money or operate weapons."
The core argument: instead of fatalism, humans have agency over how AI is used — we should decide what kind of AI to build, what problems it solves, and treat it as a tool rather than a force of nature.
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