Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks We examine claims and counterclaims about the risks and calls to slow down the pace of AI development The Guardian - UK · Sep 15
More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils but Musk dismisses ‘psyop’ Insiders at the firm fear tech’s advancement could cause human extinction, while others are calling their declarations of concern a ‘setup’ The Guardian - US · Sep 10
AGI is here, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declared. Here’s why the market doesn’t care If AI were really about to unleash the explosive growth its boosters predict, economists say it should show up somewhere surprising: real interest rates. Fortune · Sep 9
AI Experts Sound Alarm Over 'Terrifying' Rumoured OpenAI Update to ChatGPT System Monitoring AI researchers express concern about potential updates to ChatGPT that could limit oversight, despite OpenAI's denial of any such changes. The debate highlights the tension between innovation and safety. International Business Times UK · Sep 4
Will AI find its feet after bubble bursts? Big Tech's AI spending is skyrocketing, with projections reaching $700 billion this year. Critics like Gary Marcus and Cory Doctorow label this an unsustainable "capital misallocation." Doctorow's new book explores a post-AI world, questioning the current AI bubble driven by investor hopes of mass worker replacement. He argues AI's escalating… The Times of India · Jul 4
Hyperscalers could end up resembling airlines—plagued by small margins, intense competition, and high expenses, AI skeptic warns “In placing massive hyperscaling bets, investors are setting lavish expectations about future earnings.” Fortune · Jun 29
US order cutting access to Anthropic's AI models sparks criticism NEW YORK - The US government's order for Anthropic to withdraw its most powerful artificial intelligence models has sparked a wave of criticism from both advocates and opponents of AI regulation. Bangkok Post · Jun 15
The 'godfather of AI' says we're not just creating new beings — they'll be much smarter than us, and soon The race to make the smartest possible AI that can do the most things will "lead to things that aren't nice beings towards us," Geofrey Hinton said. Fortune · Jun 1
OpenAI and Anthropic spark coding revolution as developers abandoned traditional programming New releases from OpenAI and Anthropic sparked an existential crisis among coders, but many engineers say they stopped coding months ago. Fortune · Feb 14
Top AI leaders are begging people not to use Moltbook, a social media platform for AI agents: It’s a ‘disaster waiting to happen’ Moltbook might be fake, but even worse, it’s dangerous to run on your personal computer, experts say. Fortune · Feb 2
Mark Zuckerberg And Sam Altman Admitted Today's AI Surge Is Bubble-Like, Now A Researcher Compares The Boom With 18th Century Tulip Mania Artificial intelligence may be powering record investment and innovation, but one of the industry's most outspoken skeptics says the hype looks eerily like past manias. Benzinga · Sep 29, 2025
Why the Oracle-OpenAI deal has set 'AI Bubble' alarm bells ringing Oracle’s $300B deal with OpenAI drove a stock surge, but investors worry both companies could fail to deliver Fortune · Sep 16, 2025
Elon Musk says Optimus robots will save Tesla. But many of them don’t work yet As Tesla suffers a worldwide slowdown in sales, the world’s richest person is pinning his hopes on humanoid robots to conquer the future. But it’s not even clear yet whether they can operate on their own The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2025
The AI bubble may be about to pop — here’s what MIT’s 95% failure stat means Billions of dollars are being poured into AI development, but most pilot programs don't succeed. Windows Central · Aug 28, 2025
Windows Central · Aug 25, 2025 95% of corporate AI pilots are flopping — MIT just said the quiet part out loud Billions of dollars are being poured into AI development, but most pilot programs don't succeed.
Fortune · Aug 24, 2025 ‘It’s almost tragic’: Bubble or not, the AI backlash is validating one critic’s warnings Gary Marcus told Fortune that AI valuations remind him of Wile E. Coyote. “We are off the cliff.”
Bored Panda · Jun 24, 2025 43 People Ask ChatGPT To Age Up Their Childhood Photos And Compare The Prediction With Reality Which predictions do you think AI got 100% right?
The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2025 When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it’s time to rethink the hype The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus
The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2025 Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds ‘Pretty devastating’ Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence
International Business Times UK · Jun 6, 2025 AI Agents Could Soon Discover New Knowledge, Says OpenAI's Sam Altman; But What Does That Really Mean? OpenAi's Sam Altman suggests AI agents may soon make original discoveries. We explore what that really means and how far we are from truly autonomous machine insight.
International Business Times · May 29, 2025 Generative AI's Most Prominent Skeptic Doubles Down Two and a half years since ChatGPT rocked the world, scientist and writer Gary Marcus still remains generative artificial intelligence's great skeptic, playing a counter-narrative to Silicon Valley's AI true believers.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2025 Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids’ school lunches. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking over
Fortune · Mar 7, 2025 OpenAI’s ex-policy lead accuses the company of ‘rewriting’ its AI safety history in new safety post A former policy lead at OpenAI is accusing the company of rewriting its history with a new post about the company's approach to safety and alignment.
Windows Central · Feb 18, 2025 "Elon Musk promised Grok 3 would be the smartest AI ever. Spoiler alert: it wasn't." — AI critic says Sam Altman can breathe easy as xAI's model launch was a "carbon copy" of previous demos Elon Musk touts Grok 3 as the smartest AI on earth, outperforming proprietary models from top AI firms, including OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and Google.
Fortune · Feb 9, 2025 A Super Bowl ad featuring Google’s Gemini AI contained a whopper of a mistake about cheese Google quietly corrected an ad featuring its chatbot that claimed Gouda made up 60% of the world’s cheese consumption.