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Marcus on AI
garymarcus.substack.com > p > could-rogue-agent-swarms-take-over

Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?

10+ hour, 59+ min ago   (553+ words) Dario Amodei seems to think so. Or at least Axios thinks he thinks so, based on Amodei’s new essay. We think that’s (a) a vague claim, and (b) pretty implausible as best we can understand it. But in fairness also…...

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garymarcus.substack.com > p > no-anderson-cooper-ai-is-not-going

No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1130+ words) Anderson Cooper looks pretty worried here, as Jacob Coxon, the ex-OpenAI/ex-Anthropic employee who is the media darling of the moment, tells us that the human species might not be here in five years. I am here to tell you…...

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garymarcus.substack.com > p > openais-egregious-pattern-of-misconduct

OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (775+ words) The story that broke this morning—still waiting for OpenAI’s full response—blew my mind. And yet also left me unsurprised. Here are nine things I learned just in the last week: The widely discussed and worrisome Hugging Face incident…...

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garymarcus.substack.com > p > red-alert-openai-is-poised-to-cross

Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (204+ words) The Information just broke the scoop that OpenAI is playing around with a new technique, in which models will reveal less of their “thinking”, making them harder to monitor. The new techniques they are exploring may make such monitoring difficult…...

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garymarcus.substack.com > p > dwarkesh-patelss-wildly-popular-but

Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1030+ words) The popular podcaster Dwarkesh Patel wrote something completely viral about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, which purports to tell the whole story in plain English: It’s well-written and compelling, and it reminds me of something Douglas Hofstadter once wrote about…...