Claim · 2023-03-28 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Marcus's post of 28 March 2023 argues that the choice between present and future AI risks is not either/or, and that criticising people for focusing on the wrong risks does not help.

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What it connects

AI risk ≠ AGI risk → contests → Present harms deserve priority

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

AI risk ≠ AGI riskcontests ↓Present harms deserve priority

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2023-03-28 · publication Records dated 2023 →
Role: Contesting, Earliest located
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Engagement: Engages a premise. Disputes the premise that attention to present and to future risks competes.

Scope and limitsThe post addresses the ranking of risks in general; it does not answer a named text.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

AI risk ≠ AGI risk

Marcus on AI, author's Substack (garymarcus.substack.com) · 2023-03-28

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Source excerpt

“It’s not an either/or situation; current technology already poses enormous risks that we are ill-prepared for. With future technology, things could well get worse.”

Location in source Penultimate paragraph

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Gary Marcus
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 5ab3a54e0f2b5e20368a619bcd0dde481432d904f94c0dcc2e985bc5d153fd03). Current Substack post, datePublished 2023-03-28; embedded tweets and a quoted Europol excerpt are not the author's text and are not quoted. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Gary Marcus, “AI risk ≠ AGI risk”, 2023-03-28.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (24 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

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Date. Date of posting.

Record ID rd-r12-marcus-2023-ai-risk-agi-risk