FAA nationwide ground stop: Gary Marcus on AI risks and Silicon Valley arrogance

Gary Marcus links the nationwide FAA ground stop and this week's massive Microsoft outage to warnings he issued since 2022 about putting generative AI into critical systems. He says it is still unclear whether the incident was the malicious cyberattack he warned about in Politico in January 2025 or the kind of LLM failure he flagged in May 2022.