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Listen to this article in summarized format Marcus, who was in India this week, has emerged as one of the world's most widely recognised and independent critics of the current generative-AI hype. He called Anthropic "egregious" for calling out risks and asking for slowing down of AI while pressing ahead with its $2 trillion IPO. He sought a "recall" of autonomous AI agents, arguing that they are dangerous and unsafe and that the launch of personal agents will further aggravate the situation. "People talk about P(doom), the probability that AI will cause human extinction. But I think the probability of that is very low. The probability of catastrophe is higher, and the probability of dystopia is very high. We are already heading that way," he said. A professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University, he founded machine-learning startup Geometric Intelligence, which was acquired by Uber in 2016, and later co-founded robotics company Robust.AI. He famously testified alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman before the US Senate in 2023 on AI regulation and in December 2025, published a set of provocative predictions for 2026, which included warnings of a generative AI investment bubble peaking in 2025, AGI being a long time away and backlash over AI becoming a political issue during the mid-term elections in the US. Marcus said OpenAI could possibly struggle to justify its spending and eventually fail to secure the public listing it hopes for. "Microsoft could acquire OpenAI for $200 billion rather than the $1 trillion valuation the company might seek in an IPO," he said. WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, saw its planned 2019 IPO collapse amid concerns over losses and governance before filing for bankruptcy in 2023, while OpenAI has reportedly delayed its planned IPO, targeting a valuation of $1 trillion, to next year. (What's moving Sensex and Nifty Track latest market news, stock tips, Budget 2025, Share Market on Budget 2025 and expert advice, on ETMarkets. Also, ETMarkets.com is now on Telegram. For fastest news alerts on financial markets, investment strategies and stocks alerts, subscribe to our Telegram feeds .) Subscribe to ET Prime and read the Economic Times ePaper Online.and Sensex Today. Top Trending Stocks: SBI Share Price, Axis Bank Share Price, HDFC Bank Share Price, Infosys Share Price, Wipro Share Price, NTPC Share Price (What's moving Sensex and Nifty Track latest market news, stock tips, Budget 2025, Share Market on Budget 2025 and expert advice, on ETMarkets. Also, ETMarkets.com is now on Telegram. For fastest news alerts on financial markets, investment strategies and stocks alerts, subscribe to our Telegram feeds .) Subscribe to ET Prime and read the Economic Times ePaper Online.and Sensex Today. Top Trending Stocks: SBI Share Price, Axis Bank Share Price, HDFC Bank Share Price, Infosys Share Price, Wipro Share Price, NTPC Share Price
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