Gary Marcus

Scienziato cognitivo, professore emerito alla NYU e autore di Taming Silicon Valley, avverte che un’IA generativa inaffidabile e non regolata minaccia la democrazia e la fiducia pubblica, pur contestando che i sistemi odierni si avvicinino all’intelligenza umana.

Ruoli

2015 – dic 2016Founder and CEO, Geometric IntelligenceAcquired by Uber in December 2016.Fonte →
dic 2016 – mar 2017Director, Uber AI Labs, UberFonte →
2019 – oggiCo-founder, Robust.AICo-founded with Rodney Brooks. Books include Rebooting AI (2019) and Taming Silicon Valley (MIT Press, 2024); writes the Substack "Marcus on AI".Fonte →

A registro

2 set 2026 · Post · Marcus on AI (Substack)
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need … If this is true, OpenAI seems to be violating one of the few redlines that exist in the AI industry.
Co-founder, Robust.AI all’epoca
On reports that OpenAI is exploring techniques that hide model chain-of-thought from monitoring.
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline. →
20 dic 2025 · Post · Marcus on AI (Substack)
GPT-5 was underwhelming, and didn't solve hallucinations. LLMs still aren't reliable; the economics look dubious.
Co-founder, Robust.AI all’epoca
Predicts that "backlash to Generative AI and radical deregulation will escalate" and that AI becomes a US midterm election issue.
Six (or seven) predictions for AI 2026 from a Generative AI realist →
9 ago 2025 · Post · Marcus on AI (Substack)
A system that could have gone a week without the community finding boatloads of ridiculous errors and hallucinations would have genuinely impressed me.
Co-founder, Robust.AI all’epoca
Argues scaling has stalled and that the field must move to "neurosymbolic AI with explicit world models".
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it. →
22 mag 2023 · Editoriale · TIME
Current systems are not transparent, they do not adequately protect our privacy, and they continue to perpetuate bias.
Co-founder, Robust.AI all’epoca
In the Rush to AI, We Can't Afford to Trust Big Tech →
16 mag 2023 · Audizione · US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law
We have built machines that are like bulls in a China shop, powerful, reckless, and difficult to control. … They can and will create persuasive lies at a scale humanity has never seen before.
Co-founder, Robust.AI all’epoca
Hearing "Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence", alongside Sam Altman and Christina Montgomery.
Transcript: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Oversight of AI →