How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun

Do not preach doom to Yann LeCun. A pioneer of modern AI and Meta's chief AI scientist, LeCun is one of the technology's most vocal defenders. He scoffs at his peers' dystopian scenarios of supercharged misinformation and even, eventually, human extinction. He's known to fire off a vicious tweet (or whatever they're called in the land of X) to call out the fearmongers. When his former collaborators Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio put their names at the top of a statement calling AI a "societal-scale risk," LeCun stayed away.