Gary Marcus: AI doomers are practically a marketing arm for OpenAI and Anthropic
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-13
Gary Marcus argues that AI doomers function as a de facto marketing arm for AI companies: every extinction warning convinces investors the technology is powerful, and doomers themselves need to raise money by stoking fear — all of which benefits Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. Without the doomers, he says, they wouldn't have raised anywhere near the funding they have.
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