Gary Marcus: AI is more likely to wreck the economy than end humanity
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-19
Prominent AI critic Gary Marcus argued that AI is more likely to decimate the economy than to terminate humanity, quoting a jab that this more immediate risk never seems to come up in interviews about AI existential danger.
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