--- title: "Gary Marcus: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Gary Marcus, Cognitive scientist and AI commentator. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-gary-marcus source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Gary Marcus, Gary Marcus AI, Gary Marcus quotes, Gary Marcus statements, Gary Marcus on AI, what Gary Marcus said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Gary Marcus, Cognitive scientist and AI commentator. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-gary-marcus The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Gary Marcus [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-gary-marcus) Cognitive scientist and AI commentator · Author, Marcus on AI ## Why now No headline this week names Gary Marcus. ## What they said 4 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Gary Marcus, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Sep 10, 2026 In the record "In my view, the chance that AI will eliminate humans in the next five years is all but indistinguishable from zero." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [substack.com](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/no-anderson-cooper-ai-is-not-going) - May 16, 2025 In the record "Tragically, almost none of what was discussed that day has come to fruition." [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [substack.com](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-years-ago-today-in-ai-history) - Aug 10, 2024 In the record "Those seem reasonable to me, and I don't understand what would justify an exemption there." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [substack.com](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-fei-fei-li-concerning) - May 16, 2023 In the record "Testified at the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on oversight of AI, submitting written testimony on the risks of current AI systems and the case for regulation." [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [senate.gov](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-05-16%20-%20Testimony%20-%20Marcus.pdf) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Gary%20Marcus#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Gary Marcus ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - May 16, 2023 [Testified at the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on oversight of AI, submitting written testimony on the risks of current AI system...](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-05-16%20-%20Testimony%20-%20Marcus.pdf) - Aug 10, 2024 ["Those seem reasonable to me, and I don't understand what would justify an exemption there."](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-fei-fei-li-concerning) - May 16, 2025 ["Tragically, almost none of what was discussed that day has come to fruition."](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-years-ago-today-in-ai-history) - Aug 10, 2024 ["Those seem reasonable to me, and I don't understand what would justify an exemption there."](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-fei-fei-li-concerning) - Sep 10, 2026 ["In my view, the chance that AI will eliminate humans in the next five years is all but indistinguishable from zero."](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/no-anderson-cooper-ai-is-not-going) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Gary Marcus. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Gary Marcus with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.