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Casey Newton writes authoritatively about AI and he is dramatically mislead on what it does, how it works, and what its actual threats and harms are.
Why would we trust that he is better informed or educated on any other fucking thing he writes authoritatively about?
Journalists have a hard job. They also have a huge potential impact and a huge amount of responsibility that comes with that. That's why it's a hard job.
They have an obligation to be humble and not credulous when they receive information in a domain that they are not personally educated on, from powerful people who have an interest in the public not being too well informed.
It doesn't even matter if Gary Marcus actually knows what he's talking about about or if he's just a willing dupe of a corporation that pays him an obscene amount of money. The effect is the same. Marcus is not a reliable narrator.
And now we know that neither is Casey Newton.