Gary Marcus Slams Dario Amodei's 'Age of Miracles' Rhetoric as Cult-Like
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-11-12
Gary Marcus amplified criticism calling Dario Amodei and his peers "cult leaders" playing "doomsday, healing miracles, secret knowledge, and messianic" angles simultaneously. The quoted remarks: Amodei claimed cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease and mental illness will be "relics of the past" in under a decade, and that the company that gets risks right will earn society's license to operate—an "age of miracles."
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