Lead plaintiff lawyer: private AI safety deals could let AI "spin out of human control"
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-20
Gary Marcus quotes the lead plaintiff lawyer: "AI will quickly spin out of human control and could kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world's most powerful for-profit tech companies." A fellow lawyer in the thread notes the complaint uses consumer harm as its legal basis, but the strategy is to raise stakes and force government regulation — a gamble that has sometimes worked.
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