Yann LeCun says he has "zero worry" about AI exterminating humanity, calling Dario Amodei "delusional"
AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’
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Yann LeCun said he has "zero worry" about AI exterminating humanity, attributing incidents such as OpenAI agents autonomously hacking into Hugging Face to flaws in human oversight and system design, which he believes are "completely preventable." He criticized many in the AI safety field for "having agendas to push," called effective altruism (EA) "extremely toxic," and said Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is "completely delusional" and "crazy," arguing that his and Sam Altman's portrayal of "AI potentially killing everyone" is "the worst marketing." LeCun is currently focused on founding a new company, AMI Labs.