What Gary Marcus thinks about AI alignment

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Cognitive scientist, professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU, and the most persistent public critic of large language models. Author of The Algebraic Mind and Rebooting AI; writes the Marcus on AI newsletter.

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1. 7 Jun 2025

   Our readingThere is no route to AI alignment or safety that goes around reliability: a system that cannot reliably follow a known algorithm cannot be made safe.

   Their wordsAnd good luck getting to “alignment” or “safety” without reliabilty.

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