AI godfather Yann LeCun wants us to forget some of the more far-fetched doomsday scenarios. He named OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei in a lengthy weekend post on X. “Altman, Hassabis, and Amodei are the ones doing massive corporate lobbying at the moment,” LeCun wrote, referring to these founders’ role in shaping regulatory conversations about AI safety. LeCun said, founders such as Altman and Hassabis have spent a lot of time drumming up fear about the very technology they’re selling.

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Perhaps we should stop and think?