Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) X analytics
@GaryMarcus
OG GenAI Skeptic; spoke at US Senate. Warned about hallucinations in 2001. Advocating world models & neurosymbolic AI ever since. Author, Marcus on AI & 6 books
@GaryMarcus has 254.8K followers, a median of 10.7K views per post and a 2.01% engagement rate.
Based on 30 recent original posts (high confidence). Updated October 26, 2026.
At a glance
Key stats
- Followers
- 254.8K254,794 followers on October 26, 2026+1.2K in 7 days
- Median views per post
- 10.7K
- Average views per post
- 15.5K
- Engagement rate (by views)
- 2.01%
- Original posts per week
- 95.5
- Average engagements per post
- 311
Engagement grade
Strong
This is above the baseline for accounts with 100K-1M followers.
Profile score
85/100
- Profile completeness100
- Audience shape100
- Engagement25
- Consistency100
- Positioning clarity100
Monetization
Estimated X creator earnings
$31–$75 in the last 30 days
From 6.2M views on @GaryMarcus's original posts in the last 30 days.
Rewards eligibility: likely
Rough estimate. X publishes no payout rate, so this assumes about $5–12 per 1M original-post impressions from reported creator payouts. Only Premium viewers’ impressions count, so real payouts can be much lower.
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Growth
Follower growth
+1.2K followers in the last 7 days. Tracked by Xholic since July 28, 2026.
| Date | Followers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | 254,794 | +803 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 253,991 | +161 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 253,830 | +259 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 253,571 | +17 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 253,554 | +203 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 253,351 | +4 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 253,347 | +931 |
Timing
Best times to post
When @GaryMarcus's recent posts performed best (UTC).
- #1 slot
6:18 PM
Monday · UTC
- #2 slot
6:12 PM
Tuesday · UTC
- #3 slot
6:23 PM
Wednesday · UTC
What worked
Top recent posts
- 01
@GaryMarcus ·
the negative case against AI gets stronger every day; even Altman admits the problems are very serious with no obvious solution. the positive case, meanwhile, looks weaker every day. a quote from Apollo’s Torsten Slok: “Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Revenue per worker is… flat for the S&P 493…. Profit margins are… flat for the S&P 493…. No signs of AI boosting [measured] productivity growth…. Mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending… as a cost center…. Mainstream corporate America does not need the latest model and is unwilling to pay for it. As long as agentic AI and token spending are confined to a small part of the economy, the macroeconomic effects of AI will be very limited.” https://t.co/DIFgO2XiA2
- 117Replies
- 234Reposts
- 1KLikes
- 90.1KViews
7.0x average engagementShares a linkLong post (over 200 characters)Posted Sat 17:00 UTC - 02
@GaryMarcus ·
When people start to write postmortems of the GenAI crash, this will be a popular statistic: https://t.co/3GY85FQ4gp
- 26Replies
- 133Reposts
- 753Likes
- 19.4KViews
2.7x average engagementHas an imageShort post (under 100 characters)Posted Sat 16:00 UTC - 03
@GaryMarcus ·
Wake up!!! @azeem is calling all these hacks “AI’s Wuhan moment”. Marc Benioff called it a code red. And it is clear it is all going to get worse. Yet the AI companies insist on shipping obviously dangerous products. Meanwhile the U.S. government lacks the will and/or competence to do anything about it. We are on an express train to hell. Tell your congress people to temporarily ban AI agents, or brace for impact.
- 44Replies
- 100Reposts
- 454Likes
- 28.9KViews
2.1x average engagementText onlyLong post (over 200 characters)Posted Fri 19:00 UTC - 04
@GaryMarcus ·
Every now and then I think that the real problem with Elon Musk is that he has no idea about what the actual facts are. (Nor any interest in finding out.) This is one of those times.
- 30Replies
- 76Reposts
- 582Likes
- 27.5KViews
1.6x average engagementText onlyMedium length (100-200 characters)Posted Sat 15:00 UTCQuote post - 05
@GaryMarcus ·
I agree with @sama that these AI-induced security problems are very serious. The only short term solution I see is to temporarily disable agents with internet access until some kind of solution is devised. Anyone see any other options?
- 101Replies
- 39Reposts
- 285Likes
- 22.8KViews
1.5x average engagementText onlyLong post (over 200 characters)Posted Sat 12:00 UTCQuote post - 06
@GaryMarcus ·
mass insanity
- 8Replies
- 72Reposts
- 324Likes
- 14.2KViews
1.4x average engagementText onlyShort post (under 100 characters)Posted Sat 18:00 UTCQuote post
Latest
Recent posts by Gary Marcus
The latest 30 original posts from @GaryMarcus, newest first, as of October 26, 2026. Replies and reposts aren't included.
@GaryMarcus ·
Elon may not know shit about history about he’s right about this: most of the neoclouds are screwed.
- 12Replies
- 4Reposts
- 51Likes
- 4.9KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
this is a terrible idea, as outlined by Dan Dennett in one of his last essays: https://t.co/GUNSBzJsIK
- 15Replies
- 22Reposts
- 183Likes
- 18.1KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
IMHO the odds that we will be (or will have been in) a major recession by 2036 are much much higher than the chance that humans will be extinct.
- 11Replies
- 14Reposts
- 112Likes
- 10KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
pick your poison. or consider a pause on agentic AI.
- 9Replies
- 9Reposts
- 47Likes
- 5.8KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
no idea why this isn’t obvious yet to everyone.
- 5Replies
- 25Reposts
- 176Likes
- 15.6KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
totally worth it for all the boosts in productivity we were promised along the way
- 8Replies
- 18Reposts
- 123Likes
- 6.6KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
Elon, sincere question, you can’t really be that stupid, can you?
- 53Replies
- 39Reposts
- 553Likes
- 18.2KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
the race to permanent negative margins is on!
- 16Replies
- 24Reposts
- 155Likes
- 8.5KViews
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@GaryMarcus ·
this hasn’t aged quite as well as Sam thought it would.
- 12Replies
- 21Reposts
- 289Likes
- 15.7KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
“There’s an old joke that if building architecture and construction practices were like software architecture and construction, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. Looks like the woodpecker is here for the software.”
- 13Replies
- 25Reposts
- 182Likes
- 9.2KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
the negative case against AI gets stronger every day; even Altman admits the problems are very serious with no obvious solution. the positive case, meanwhile, looks weaker every day. a quote from Apollo’s Torsten Slok: “Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Revenue per worker is… flat for the S&P 493…. Profit margins are… flat for the S&P 493…. No signs of AI boosting [measured] productivity growth…. Mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending… as a cost center…. Mainstream corporate America does not need the latest model and is unwilling to pay for it. As long as agentic AI and token spending are confined to a small part of the economy, the macroeconomic effects of AI will be very limited.” https://t.co/DIFgO2XiA2
- 117Replies
- 234Reposts
- 1KLikes
- 90.1KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
When people start to write postmortems of the GenAI crash, this will be a popular statistic: https://t.co/3GY85FQ4gp
- 26Replies
- 133Reposts
- 753Likes
- 19.4KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
The most dangerous people are those who are rich, powerful, smart, and intellectually lazy, unwilling to critically evaluate whether or not what they think is true actually is.
- 32Replies
- 35Reposts
- 269Likes
- 10.1KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
Every now and then I think that the real problem with Elon Musk is that he has no idea about what the actual facts are. (Nor any interest in finding out.) This is one of those times.
- 30Replies
- 76Reposts
- 582Likes
- 27.5KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
Good example of why the core AI trust issue isn’t about malice so much as unreliability.
- 15Replies
- 8Reposts
- 63Likes
- 8.2KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
I agree with @sama that these AI-induced security problems are very serious. The only short term solution I see is to temporarily disable agents with internet access until some kind of solution is devised. Anyone see any other options?
- 101Replies
- 39Reposts
- 285Likes
- 22.8KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
I would trust Ryan over OpenAI, by a very wide margin.
- 2Replies
- 11Reposts
- 109Likes
- 9.4KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
hey, for the thick folks in the back row, the central problem is they same as it always been: systems with LLMs at the core cannot be trusted. giving unreliable systems with unrestricted access to the internet is and was a bad idea.
- 21Replies
- 60Reposts
- 425Likes
- 10.7KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
i absolutely told you so. january 2025, warning that we would soon see the largest cyberattacks in history, sparked by generative AI and lax enforcement. don’t ever lie and say i am always wrong, again. seriously. we are facing exactly the epic cybersecurity meltdown i warned about.
- 33Replies
- 52Reposts
- 218Likes
- 12.1KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
people like OpenAI’s Roon lied about me endlessly, dismissed everything i said, and look where it got us.
- 2Replies
- 0Reposts
- 13Likes
- 2.5KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
i absolutely fucking told you so. january 2025. don’t ever lie and say i am always wrong, again. seriously. we are facing exactly the epic cybersecurity meltdown i warned about.
- 1Replies
- 0Reposts
- 8Likes
- 2.9KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
The movie of all this is going to be amazing, a split screen of Generative AI agents crippling the infrastructure of society while the companies race towards their IPOs. I look forward to Matt Damon playing me, screaming into the void.
- 33Replies
- 34Reposts
- 357Likes
- 10.7KViews
@GaryMarcus ·
Wake up!!! @azeem is calling all these hacks “AI’s Wuhan moment”. Marc Benioff called it a code red. And it is clear it is all going to get worse. Yet the AI companies insist on shipping obviously dangerous products. Meanwhile the U.S. government lacks the will and/or competence to do anything about it. We are on an express train to hell. Tell your congress people to temporarily ban AI agents, or brace for impact.
- 44Replies
- 100Reposts
- 454Likes
- 28.9KViews
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