Gary Marcus: today's AI is like airliners with cardboard stabilizers, prone to crash
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-29
AI researcher Gary Marcus on current LLMs: "they aren't inhabited by demons, and better pilots might compensate a little—but a plane with stabilizers made of cardboard will be inherently hard to control and often crash." A characteristic metaphor in his long-running critique that today's AI safety issues stem from architecture, not user error.
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