Professor Gary Marcus

So I'm still optimistic that we're not going to destroy ourselves.

I think there are ways we can not destroy ourselves.

And I have to live much of my life according to the good outcome.

I haven't thrown away my retirement savings.

I'm still hoping that I'll have a retirement or live forever or whatever's going to happen.

I haven't completely committed to the idea of annihilation.

The other thing about having kids is I can also see that the AI is getting smarter faster than my kids are.

I wish I could tell you a really crisp answer because then we would just go right up to that line and stay there and never take a step forward.

That would be fantastic.

Unfortunately, because of the nature of this research, nobody knows where the line is.

It really does feel like we're driving in the fog toward a cliff and all the different AI research companies are just flooring the gas because, hey, the closer you get to the cliff, it's like shuffleboard, more points for you, more money, trillions of dollars.

And the truth is that today, I don't think we're over the cliff yet.

You know, there's some people who will tell you today, AI has caused so much damage.

It's so bad.

No, I think today it's still net good.

You know, it's very useful.

I use AI a lot today, as long as I'm alive.

The problem is I do think the cliff is coming and the cliff is just when it gets smarter than humanity.

And so at the very least, the kind of proposal we need to do right now is we need to just build an off button.

We need to build a brake pedal because right now there is no brake pedal.