AI pioneer Yann LeCun has described talk of artificial intelligence posing an existential threat to humanity as ridiculous.
AI pioneer Yann LeCun has described talk of artificial intelligence (AI) posing an existential threat to humanity as “preposterously ridiculous.”
Speaking to the BBC this week at an AI-focused event held in Paris by Meta, where he now works as the company’s chief AI scientist, Professor LeCun said: “Will AI take over the world? No, this is a projection of human nature on machines.”
LeCun’s comments are in stark contrast to those made by Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, with whom he won the Turing Award in 2018 for breakthroughs in AI. The three experts are now often referred to as “the godfathers of AI.”
Hinton recently quit his role at Google so he would be able to share more freely his thoughts on AI development.
