Gary Marcus mocks OpenAI's safety containment: 'hope for the best'
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-29
AI critic Gary Marcus joked—"half-kidding, but not entirely"—that OpenAI's analogue to BSL-4 containment, the highest level of biosafety controls, is called "hope for the best," mocking the lab's actual safeguards against runaway AI agents.
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