# Marcus on AI

> "Marcus has become one of our few indispensable public intellectuals. The more people read him, the better our actions in shaping Al will be."
- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future.

- **Platform:** substack
- **Category:** AI
- **Subscribers:** 120K
- **Paid subscribers:** 7K
- **Weekly growth:** +0.5%
- **Monthly growth:** +3.0%
- **Last updated:** 2026-10-14
- **Author:** Marcus on AI
- **URL:** https://garymarcus.substack.com
- **Profile:** https://newsletterinsights.io/newsletter/garymarcus

## Recent Posts

- [Turns out Generative AI was a scam](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/turns-out-generative-ai-was-a-scam)
- [No, Anthropic did not call for a pause on AI development](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/no-anthropic-did-not-call-for-a-pause)
- [Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI companies from liability, after all](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/maybe-section-230-doesnt-shield-ai)
- [An entire industry is being propped up by math that is insane.](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-entire-industry-is-being-propped)
- [Three reactions to Anthropics’s latest apologia](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/three-reactions-to-anthropicss-latest)
- [BREAKING: Sam Altman concedes that we need major breakthroughs beyond mere scaling to get to AGI](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-sam-altman-concedes-that)
- [Please don’t trust your chatbot for medical advice](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/please-dont-trust-your-chatbot-for)
- [The back story behind the first “$1.8 Billion” dollar “AI Company”](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-back-story-behind-the-first-18)
- [The two wildest stories today in tech](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-two-wildest-stories-today-in)
- [Marilyn (Molly) Marcus, 1942-2026](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/marilyn-molly-marcus-1942-2026)