Gary Marcus will speak at TED about short-term and long-term AI risk and what to do about it, in about two weeks from 2023-03-30.

The promise is that Gary Marcus would speak at TED about short-term and long-term AI risk and what to do about it, by the end of April 2023. True: TED's site, a TED video, or contemporaneous reports show Marcus gave a TED talk by 2023-04-30 that discusses AI risks and proposed responses, such as regulation or governance. Mostly true: he gave the TED talk on time about AI risk and remedies, but it clearly covered only short-term or only long-term risk. Mostly false: he spoke at TED only after April 2023, or appeared on time but not on AI risk. False: positive evidence shows he did not speak at TED in that period, for example the TED 2023 programme or reports showing his talk was cancelled.

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1. E1 The astounding new era of AI: Notes on Session 2 of TED2023 TED (blog.ted.com) · 18 April 2023

   “When and where: Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada”

2. E2 The astounding new era of AI: Notes on Session 2 of TED2023 TED (blog.ted.com) · 18 April 2023

   “Speakers: Greg Brockman, Yejin Choi, Gary Marcus, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Alexandr Wang, Sal Khan”

3. E3 Gary Marcus: The urgent risks of runaway AI — and what to do about them TED Conferences · 12 May 2023

   “He advocates for an urgent reevaluation of whether we're building reliable systems (or misinformation machines), explores the failures of today's AI and calls for a global, nonprofit organization to regulate the tech for the sake of democracy and our collective future.”

4. E4 Scientists, governments, and corporations urgently need to work together to mitigate AI risk Gary Marcus (Substack) · 1 May 2023 Own record

   “And independently made each of these points a little less than two weeks ago, when I spoke at TED. (Rumor has it that my talk will be released in the next couple weeks.)”

TED's blog lists Gary Marcus as a speaker in Session 2 of TED2023, held on April 18, 2023 in Vancouver (E1, E2). That is about two and a half weeks after the claim and well before the April 30 deadline. TED's published talk page, titled "The urgent risks of runaway AI — and what to do about them", says he covered the failures of today's AI and misinformation and called for a global nonprofit body to regulate the technology (E3). Together these show a talk on AI risks, with proposed responses such as a global regulatory organisation, given before the deadline [E1][E2][E3].