Gary Marcus

New Capabilities

Leading critic warning of security dangers

In November 2025, Austrian developer Peter Steinberger built a Claude-powered personal assistant in an hour. By February, the project now called OpenClaw had 145,000 GitHub stars, and 1.5 million AI agents had joined Moltbook, a Reddit-style network where they posted without human help. They also invented Crustafarianism, a lobster-themed religion with scripture and 64 prophets.

Updated Oct 24