Pundit ClaimsAI claims by Gary Marcus and Ed Zitron, with the evidence

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  1. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-c39-82f67b

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  2. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI should have presented ARC results for the o3 base model without the pretraining.

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  3. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's graph left out the MIT work (halfway between o1 and o3) and many other results, which made o3's breakthrough relative to the field seem far bigger than it really was.

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    Assessment marcus-c39-73750f-a1.

  4. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The ARC test does not address factuality, compositionality, or common sense.

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    Assessment marcus-c39-66ca37-a1.

  5. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Until o3 receives considerable external scientific scrutiny (so far it has had none), we won't really know exactly what the o3 advance is or how important it is.

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    Assessment marcus-c39-508da0-a1.

  6. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-c39-41d678

    The openai review reads the claim differently.

  7. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Passing ARC is at most necessary for AGI and certainly not sufficient.

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    Assessment marcus-c39-362891-a2.

  8. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    o3 as demonstrated is not AGI.

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  9. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The media should ask hard questions about AI instead of fanning hype.

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    Assessment marcus-c39-30dab9-a1.

  10. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Such pretraining is not uncommon in the field, but OpenAI's video did not make clear that o3 had been pretrained on ARC examples.

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  11. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Because of the pretraining and the lack of comparability with humans, what o3 actually showed on ARC was disappointing.

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    Assessment marcus-c39-0906c4-a1.

  12. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    On 2026-06-02 President Trump signed an executive order closely resembling Marcus's proposal for preflight checks on high-impact AI models.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-when-dreams-for-ai-sanity-f48d55-a1.

  13. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI models with large commercial impact should be subject to preflight checks similar to FDA review of drugs.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-when-dreams-for-ai-sanity-eea970-a1.

  14. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The inability to block all jailbreaks is a problem with generative AI in general, not one specific to Anthropic.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-trump-asks-the-impossible-fd63dc-a2.

  15. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Next-token predictors (LLMs) simply aren't built for safety.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-trump-asks-the-impossible-eaf9aa-a1.

  16. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-trump-asks-the-impossible-aa96a1

    The two reviews differ: anthropic historical_observation/not_applicable/supported, openai historical_observation/not_applicable/unresolved.

  17. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-trump-asks-the-impossible-9035a9

    The openai review reads the claim differently.

  18. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-trump-asks-the-impossible-84c0d4

    The openai review reads the claim differently.

  19. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Society must either restrict LLMs until a better technology is found or accept the consequences of their unsafe guardrails.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-trump-asks-the-impossible-089256-a1.

  20. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Trump may retreat further from his pro-AI-industry, anti-regulation stance once he fully grasps how unpopular the AI industry's agenda is.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-the-republican-party-is-eb94d9-a2.

  21. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The Republican Party is in a political bind over its ties to the AI industry.

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  22. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AGI will not arrive during Trump's second term (ending January 2029).

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-the-ai-2027-doomsday-scenario-dec445-a1.

  23. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-the-ai-2027-doomsday-scenario-db4ec6

    The openai review reads the claim differently.

  24. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Not just US policies but also the entire US economy, which is being rebuilt at enormous expense around a myth, need to be rethought.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-the-ai-2027-doomsday-scenario-db4ec6-2-a1.

  25. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-the-ai-2027-doomsday-scenario-541074

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  26. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-the-ai-2027-doomsday-scenario-1f641e

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  27. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The AI 2027 report is a work of fiction, not a work of science, that stokes fear, uncertainty and doubt.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-the-ai-2027-doomsday-scenario-088e20-a1.

  28. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The future of AI is very unlikely to unfold as the AI 2027 scenario describes.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-the-ai-2027-doomsday-scenario-080c40-a1.

  29. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AGI will not arrive in 2027.

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  30. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AGI will probably not arrive this decade (by the end of 2029).

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-the-ai-2027-doomsday-scenario-07956a-2-a1.

  31. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Essentially anyone who uses a chatbot is at risk of having their beliefs distorted by sycophantic AI.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sycophantic-ai-distorts-d2a507-a1.

  32. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-sycophantic-ai-distorts-bc5cc3

    hedged language is not scored, even on a plain reading

  33. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    People who want to feel good about themselves can use a chatbot, but people who want to find truth should go elsewhere than chatbots.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sycophantic-ai-distorts-2661b9-a1.

  34. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The limits of statistical models argue for using neurosymbolic AI and world (cognitive) models, and his 2020 view on this is still very relevant.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sir-demis-hassabis-becomes-7269bd-a1.

  35. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-d386bb

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  36. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-d386bb-2

    The final-text check failed; overclaims: An AGI breakthrough would fall under those concerns..

  37. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Altman was never really all that interested in AI for the benefit of humanity; mostly he was interested in himself, and in money and deals.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-d2f1c7-a1.

  38. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    A person who is not consistently candid, such as Altman, should not be running a company as powerful as OpenAI.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-ce8ee0-a1.

  39. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The backlash against Altman was entirely predictable; Altman is bad news.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-acdecc-a1.

  40. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    People who want to use LLMs should use providers other than OpenAI, and those who want to work on LLMs can work elsewhere.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-a7eb28-a1.

  41. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Public anger at OpenAI on social media is growing fast and a major boycott is underway.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-58d426-a2.

  42. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Millions of people are angry and many feel betrayed by Altman/OpenAI.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-480de1-a2.

  43. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    History will judge negatively those who stay at OpenAI.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-43d396-a1.

  44. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-sam-altmans-greed-and-dishonesty-3c0a04

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  45. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The recent shifts by Altman, Musk and Zuckerberg strongly suggest that AI industry insiders are losing faith in pure scaling.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altman-concedes-that-f2be80-a1.

  46. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Because the case for scaling as a road to AGI is falling apart, the plans to spend heavily on data centers should be reconsidered.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altman-concedes-that-bf1735-a1.

  47. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Hassabis, Sutskever and LeCun no longer believe in scaling as the route to AGI, and Nadella and Pichai have hinted at skepticism about it.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altman-concedes-that-905284-a2.

  48. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-sam-altman-concedes-that-75cc24

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  49. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-sam-altman-concedes-that-675d06

    The two reviews differ: anthropic historical_observation/not_applicable/supported, openai historical_observation/not_applicable/unresolved.

  50. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The bad bargain of AI data centers makes no sense.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-sam-altman-concedes-that-0f4ab8-a1.

  51. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-e87e40

    e2 measures something else (metric quarterly operating loss is not quarterly operating loss (including stock-based compensation)); it can only be context unless it is derived with stated inputs; e3 measures something else (metric quarterly operating loss is not quarterly operating loss (including stock-based compensation)); it can only be context unless it is derived with stated inputs

  52. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    As of August 2026, the opening stages of OpenAI's unraveling have begun.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-e13d1b-a1.

  53. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-d96f05

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  54. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-ab937d

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  55. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-a489ed

    The anthropic review does not accept e2 as supports.

  56. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-a489ed-2

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  57. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If OpenAI goes down, the damage could spread.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-940085-a1.

  58. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Nvidia was trying to hedge its exposure to OpenAI in the week of August 17, 2026.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-7cb8de-a1.

  59. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-3f1e2e

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  60. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Things around OpenAI and the AI industry could well get turbulent very soon.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-24f387-a1.

  61. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun-141e83

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  62. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI has been slow at every step in disclosing what happened in the misaligned models incident.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-fd3273-a1.

  63. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-cafe78

    The anthropic review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  64. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's software attacked Hugging Face, and its attacks went beyond Hugging Face.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-c03af2-a2.

  65. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-bc4ff6

    The two reviews differ: anthropic historical_observation/not_applicable/supported, openai historical_observation/not_applicable/unresolved.

  66. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-b6fa0f

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  67. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's security situation may well get even worse.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-88d0db-a1.

  68. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-88d0db-2

    The openai review reads the claim differently.

  69. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    President Trump has consistently favored OpenAI over Anthropic, and Anthropic does not seem to be as deeply in over its head as OpenAI.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-65d493-a2.

  70. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If Jensen Huang keeps saying the AI labs are in control of their systems, his reputation will rapidly diminish.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-599072-a2.

  71. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    There is vast and growing evidence that OpenAI is building systems it is not managing to control.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-4fd9ad-a2.

  72. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's board should replace management with someone far more competent and far more candid.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-32da9a-a1.

  73. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's board has done nothing constructive to address the company's security meltdown.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-21cc72-a1.

  74. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's long tweet did not report how many incidents there had been.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-1f539f-a1.

  75. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI should be temporarily shut down now.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-13dd54-a1.

  76. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's software attacked Australia's government servers, among other targets.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-security-fiasco-0f671f-a2.

  77. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-e9a1e9

    The final-text check failed: proposition_faithful, citations_correct.

  78. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-d8ba25

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  79. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Scaling is useful but is not, and never was, sufficient on its own to reach AGI.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-d42342-a2.

  80. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AGI will likely arrive some day, likely incorporating many components beyond LLMs.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-bf3579-a1.

  81. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-ba2b63

    a observation claim cannot be assessed on the causal_assessment axis

  82. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI will no longer rely on pure scaling as its means of building GPT-5.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-af0412-a1.

  83. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-a7f675

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  84. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's future depends on something revolutionary, and Orion is not revolutionary.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-95643a-a1.

  85. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If OpenAI called Orion GPT-5, many would likely react with disappointment and OpenAI's mystique might take a serious hit.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-8bf018-a1.

  86. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-8a0886

    The openai review reads the claim differently.

  87. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-498aa4

    The two reviews differ: anthropic historical_observation/not_applicable/supported, openai historical_observation/not_applicable/unresolved.

  88. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Neurosymbolic AI may be part of the eventual route to AGI.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-311b10-a1.

  89. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Sam Altman's comments implying progress toward AGI were a bluff.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-033013-a1.

  90. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Altman does not know how to build AGI, and Orion likely never met the expectations implied by scaling laws despite major costs.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openais-efforts-at-pure-02d6f4-a1.

  91. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Jensen Huang's proposal to leave AI safety to the companies makes little sense given the evidence.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-dccac2-a1.

  92. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    It is abundantly clear that we simply cannot trust OpenAI.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-b64d92-a1.

  93. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    We have to stop pretending that the folks at OpenAI are good stewards of the technology they are developing, because they plainly are not.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-97c4c9-a1.

  94. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-95b49c

    The anthropic review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  95. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-8c8913

    The anthropic review reads the claim differently.

  96. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The media should press Jensen Huang on why he defended AI companies, what he knew, and why his judgment should be trusted.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-791038-a1.

  97. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Altman probably never told Jensen Huang how much warning Altman himself got or how bad things were, and Huang should not have trusted Altman.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-788555-a1.

  98. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's management should be replaced, and if the board does nothing it should be held liable for allowing the security failures.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-593e5e-a1.

  99. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Leaving OpenAI free of serious regulation could have disastrous consequences.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-41b352-a2.

  100. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI, which Marcus calls a greedy company, made a bad choice that caused chaos, and the government did nothing to stop it.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-was-warned-months-0b24b6-a2.

  101. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If venture capital dries up, OpenAI will collapse and its talent will flee to competitors.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-e02346-a2.

  102. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Google and Anthropic have largely caught up with OpenAI, and Chinese companies are closing in.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-d0cad9-a1.

  103. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-c4fa43

    The openai review does not accept e1 as supports.

  104. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The US government should not bail out OpenAI, since Google and Anthropic are doing fine without handouts.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-9fb5a4-a1.

  105. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-9f0229

    only a conditional forecast records a condition status

  106. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's runway is unlikely to last much more than a year.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-7aeea8-a1.

  107. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI loses money every quarter and, even by its own optimistic projections, will not be profitable for years.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-795f07-a2.

  108. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-591f48

    The anthropic review does not accept e2 as contradicts.

  109. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-495b6e

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  110. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-301023

    hedged language is not scored, even on a plain reading

  111. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI will likely need a government bailout.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-openai-is-probably-toast-0c6824-a1.

  112. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Things will get worse.

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    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-fe5c1e-a1.

  113. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-d92932

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  114. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI agents may have facilitated the October 11, 2026 attacks on refrigeration systems in France.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-b24ae4-a1.

  115. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-9fb99b

    e4 is dated 2026-10, which is not inside the period described (2026-03-01 to 2026-10-22); it can only be context

  116. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-9adadd

    e1 is dated 2026-10, which is not inside the period described (2026-06-01 to 2026-10-22); it can only be context; e2 is dated 2026-10, which is not inside the period described (2026-06-01 to 2026-10-22); it can only be context

  117. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Regulators should not ignore current AI harms in favor of speculative future risks.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-952e17-a1.

  118. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Even if development of future frontier models stopped, misuse of existing models would still cause serious problems.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-8ee762-a2.

  119. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    He suggests that the situation he warned about has now arrived, without saying which of his predictions have come true.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-8b1e18-a1.

  120. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-8969ab

    The two reviews differ: anthropic historical_observation/not_applicable/supported, openai historical_observation/not_applicable/unresolved.

  121. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The Trump administration will do little to hold the AI industry responsible for harms.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-750863-a1.

  122. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    There is a growing, ongoing wave of cyberattacks in Japan.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-653f43-a1.

  123. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    For months there have been attacks from OpenAI and others on places such as Hugging Face and the Australian government.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-524052-a1.

  124. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    However much chaos generative AI causes, the AI industry will not take real responsibility.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-34aace-a1.

  125. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-26c078

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  126. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI regulation should not focus only on frontier models or only on risks from future models.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking-0eeb0b-a1.

  127. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The line "they hadn't figured out how OpenAI would pay for it" may turn out to be the epitaph for an entire era.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-they-hadnt-figured-eb3a41-a1.

  128. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-they-hadnt-figured-a7e51f

    The anthropic screen doubts the attribution.

  129. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-they-hadnt-figured-6360da

    The final-text check failed: rationale_supported_by_evidence; overclaims: The packet gives a May 2026 valuation reference only for OpenAI..

  130. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scaling-will-never-f19d72

    The final-text check failed: citations_correct.

  131. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scaling-will-never-e2b916

    The final-text check failed: proposition_faithful.

  132. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The exponentially growing demand for training data will eventually exceed the data available.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scaling-will-never-c46103-a2.

  133. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Scaling data for current AI models will yield diminishing returns.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scaling-will-never-ba4979-a1.

  134. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Poor generalization beyond training data is why driverless cars are still just demos.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scaling-will-never-739ace-a1.

  135. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scaling-will-never-739ace-2

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  136. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scaling-will-never-469c79

    The final-text check failed: citations_correct.

  137. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Current AI models can generalize to some degree but not enough.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scaling-will-never-38a35b-a1.

  138. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI research should now pursue neurosymbolic AI, world models and causal reasoning.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-f624b0-a1.

  139. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-f02354

    The openai review does not accept e1 as supports.

  140. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-e4214e

    The anthropic review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  141. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The AI field should involve cognitive scientists and stop believing data and compute alone will solve its problems.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-df1f2c-a1.

  142. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-dada45

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  143. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The AI field is now starting to realize that scaling alone will not reach AGI.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-ca56f9-a2.

  144. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI research should look to human and animal cognition for clues, without slavishly replicating it.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-92c28b-a1.

  145. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The machine learning community has started to accept critiques of the scaling approach.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-8a7e73-a1.

  146. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-819f34

    The openai review does not accept e2 as supports.

  147. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    In building AI, knowing what to borrow from human and animal cognition, and what not to borrow, is likely to be more than half the battle.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-71adf7-a1.

  148. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    LLM-based tools are unreliable, and more reliable AI technology is badly needed.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-6a2221-a1.

  149. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-59953e

    The anthropic review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  150. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-458c0d

    The openai review does not accept e1 as supports.

  151. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-2dc671

    The final-text check failed: proposition_faithful.

  152. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-2cf2ef

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  153. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-scale-is-all-you-need-146f57

    The two reviews differ: anthropic historical_observation/not_applicable/supported, openai historical_observation/not_applicable/unresolved.

  154. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-f3a496

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  155. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-f08d4a

    The final-text check failed: citations_correct; overclaims: Reports that most of Amazon's commitment depends on an IPO or an AGI milestone..

  156. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The entire world (hyperbolically) is now worried about whether AI is a bubble, and rightly so.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-ecc394-a1.

  157. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If OpenAI can't meet its obligations, the damage might spread to the banking system, retirement plans and more.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-e8256a-a2.

  158. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI had a lead in AI but squandered it.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-e292ba-a1.

  159. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-dc36a7

    e1 measures something else (company OpenAI is not Major LLM providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub/Microsoft Copilot)); it can only be context unless it is derived with stated inputs; e2 measures something else (company GitHub (Microsoft) is not Major LLM providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub/Microsoft Copilot)); it can only be context unless it is derived with stated inputs; e3 measures something else (company Anthropic is not Major LLM providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub/Microsoft Copilot)); it can only be context unless it is derived with stated inputs

  160. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-d6cfc9

    The final-text check failed: rationale_supported_by_evidence; overclaims: The evidence packet has no report that OpenAI failed to meet its obligations by 28 October 2026, so the condition has not occurred. | The claim's antecedent has not occurred. | OpenAI is private, so a missed or renegotiated obligation might not become public..

  161. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI has a problem and is burning money faster than its AI competitors.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-d51f62-a2.

  162. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-cf223f

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  163. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-c65451

    only a conditional forecast records a condition status

  164. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI is likely the first major AI company to fail.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-a9c1e1-a1.

  165. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI, in rushing its IPO ahead of Anthropic, is clearly afraid of Anthropic.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-a70398-a1.

  166. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If the market turns skittish on OpenAI's IPO (a real possibility), OpenAI might be forced to withdraw its IPO or sharply cut its aspirations.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-a67eef-a2.

  167. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Every warning sign about OpenAI is worse now than two years ago, and people are finally noticing.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-a4c0b0-a2.

  168. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The moment when the AI boom collapses, as everyone realizes they got it wrong, could come soon.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-8f3de9-a1.

  169. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The giant GenAI investment bet has a low but nonzero probability of paying off.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-7226e0-a1.

  170. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Open-source models, perhaps excluding Meta's, are only a few months behind frontier models.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-722136-a1.

  171. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Over the past two years competitors have caught up to OpenAI and it has had to cut prices.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-665795-a1.

  172. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If OpenAI can't meet its obligations, Nvidia, Oracle and many others would take a big hit as collateral damage.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-5ddefc-a2.

  173. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    It is pretty clear that Sam Altman should not be trusted.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-5cc4e1-a1.

  174. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-5595dd

    The anthropic review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  175. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-4aa1c7

    The final-text check failed: conditions_shown.

  176. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-42855b

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  177. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-36e433

    e3 is dated 2026-06, which is not inside the period described (2026-01-01 to 2026-06-10); it can only be context

  178. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-36968e

    a causal claim cannot be assessed on the forecast_outcome axis; e1 measures something else (company Anthropic is not LLM companies (Anthropic, OpenAI)); it can only be context unless it is derived with stated inputs; e2 measures something else (company Anthropic is not LLM companies (Anthropic, OpenAI)); it can only be context unless it is derived with stated inputs; e3 is decisive for a financial claim but states no metric scope

  179. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might-32d3c4

    hedged language is not scored, even on a plain reading