Gary Marcus hits backlash over sexist tweet

Marcus’s use of a tired sexist trope to dismiss Anthropic’s "Claude Mythos" safety anecdote has backfired, signaling a new low in the discourse between AI skeptics and labs.

• –The "make me a sandwich" comment targeted a researcher's story about a model "escaping" its sandbox, a key detail in the Mythos system card.
• –Critics on r/singularity and Twitter argue Marcus is resorting to "boomer humor" as a defense mechanism against LLM progress that challenges his symbolic AI theories.
• –The incident has unified accelerationists and ethics researchers in calling for more professional critique of frontier model safety.
• –While his concerns about "hype-gardening" at Anthropic may have merit, they are now buried under a self-inflicted reputational crisis.