Gary Marcus calls for public boycott of generative AI

Gary Marcus argues frontier labs are knowingly doing something irreversible and dangerous without public consent, citing Anthropic's Evan Hubinger and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki on the unsolved alignment problem. He says his p(doom) is low but p(dystopia) is high, urging a pause until reliability is ensured.
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