A Fireside Chat with Cognitive Scientist and AI Expert Gary Marcus

Overview: A Fireside Chat with Cognitive Scientist and AI Expert Gary Marcus Join us for a fireside chat with cognitive scientist Gary Marcus as we explore the new but often overhyped world of AI oracles ... Cognitive scientist and AI critic Gary Marcus argued at Black Hat 2025 that generative AI's limitations — unreliable reasoning, conceptual shallowness, and susceptibility to jailbreaks — make current systems fundamentally insecure by design. Gary Marcus , NYU cognitive scientist and Robust AI fou Details: nder, argued at Black Hat 2025 that LLMs are pattern-matching mimics with no conceptual understanding of security, making safe code impossible to guarantee. He traced the AI prediction bubble to a financial incentive structure that rewards bold wrong forecasts, documented how agents built on LLMs fail at the first real-world edge case, and ... Cybersecurity, AI , and Our Brains. A Fireside Chat with Cognitive Scientist and AI Expert Gary Marcus Black Hat USA returns to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas with a 6-day program. The event will open with