Gary Marcus says Altman's UN AI warnings ring hollow, déjà vu from 2023
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-01
In a Puck interview, prominent AI skeptic Gary Marcus dissects Sam Altman's UN Security Council warning that "we could lose control of the future to A.I.," calling for urgent government intervention.
Marcus argues the speech echoes Altman's 2023 Senate testimony — where he warned superintelligence "can go quite wrong" and asked for regulation — almost verbatim, and explains why those warnings sound equally hollow today.
The piece revisits what has and hasn't changed since the two testified side by side about runaway superintelligence.
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