Gary Marcus calls Dario Amodei's disease-cure timeline a scam
AlexTensor · x · 2026-11-11
Dario Amodei claimed cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be "relics of the past" within a decade, arguing the company that gets risks right earns society's license to operate and can create an "age of miracles." Gary Marcus fired back, calling him a "scam artist" and asserting none of these diseases will likely vanish in ten years — "but Dario will have cashed your check by then." A classic clash between frontier-lab grand predictions and prominent skeptic pushback.
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