Gary Marcus revisits AI risk warnings amid FAA grounding and Microsoft outage
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Gary Marcus spoke out about the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) nationwide grounding and this week's large-scale Microsoft outage, saying that his May 2022 warning about LLM failures and his January 2025 warning in Politico about malicious cyberattacks are coming true. He said it is not yet possible to determine whether this incident is a malicious cyberattack or an LLM failure, but believes it should no longer be surprising.
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The author, writing from EWR after spending most of the last 36 hours there, recounts earlier warnings about generative AI and LLMs, including a 2022 post and a September piece, and notes this week's large Microsoft outage. They say it is unclear whether the outage is the malicious cyberattack they warned about in Politico in January 2025 or the LLM failures they warned about in May 2022, and attribute the situation to Silicon Valley arrogance and Washington ineffectiveness.
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