Gary Marcus joins critics blasting Anthropic's wet lab plan as arrogant and tone-deaf
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-19
Gary Marcus echoes Noah Smith's criticism that an "arrogant and somewhat tone-deaf" AI company starting a wet lab is not a great idea. The quoted post is blunter: only Anthropic would be stupid enough to do exactly what Noahpinion has been warning about for months. The episode feeds ongoing debate over Anthropic's push into biological wet-lab capabilities.
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