A Fireside Chat with Cognitive Scientist and AI Expert Gary Marcus
Black Hat USA 2025 · Day 1 · Briefings
Cognitive scientist and AI critic Gary Marcus argued at Black Hat 2025 that generative AI's limitations — unreliable reasoning, conceptual shallowness, and susceptibility to jailbreaks — make current systems fundamentally insecure by design. He warned that AI agents are not ready for autonomous deployment, that AGI is possible but far off, and that uncritical AI adoption is quietly degrading human critical thinking at scale. ---
AI review
Gary Marcus is articulate and mostly right, but a fireside chat with an AI skeptic recapping his book's arguments is not a technical briefing. Nothing here that a practitioner couldn't get from reading Marcus's Substack. Wrong format for Black Hat; would fit better as a podcast episode.