Gary Marcus: LLMs are constitutionally ill-suited to alignment — a defining technical question
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-01
Gary Marcus re-boosts his earlier argument that LLMs are constitutionally ill-suited to alignment and that alternative approaches are needed, calling it — without exaggeration — one of the most important technical questions of our era. The post itself doesn't detail what might work better.
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