AI researcher Gary Marcus sounds off on Moltbook and OpenClaw's viral moment

Gary Marcus wrote that using OpenClaw was like giving a stranger at a bar all your passwords.

Gary Marcus

• Gary Marcus advocates caution about AI's risks. His take on OpenClaw and Moltbook was blunt: "I wouldn't touch it."
• "If we are lucky, it will become a teachable moment and the damage will be modest," Marcus told Business Insider in a Q&A.
• Will these agent tools be a fad? It's possible, he wrote, "like Sora videos or pet rocks."

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