Gary Marcus links FAA nationwide ground stop to his years-old generative AI warnings
Gary Marcus · rss · 2026-11-14
Writing from Newark airport amid mass cancellations, Gary Marcus ties the FAA nationwide ground stop to his long-standing warnings. He recalls a 2022 reply from an avionics engineer saying his team used formal methods and would never let deep learning near such software, hoping FAA/EASA wouldn't get "innovative." Marcus implies the stopover and this week's Microsoft outage echo his warnings, saying he can't tell whether it's the malicious cyberattack he warned about in Politico (Jan 2025) or the LLM failures he warned about in May 2022 — but that none of it should surprise, blaming Silicon Valley arrogance and Washington's ineffectiveness. Note: the piece offers no hard evidence tying AI to the ground stop; it's his signature viewpoint piece.
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