LeCun amplifies broadside: AI doomers push authoritarian control over imaginary problem
ylecun · x · 2026-09-10
LeCun amplified Dan Jeffries' argument that AI doomers are 'delusionally dangerous,' offering only rigid authoritarian control over AI and life or crashing economic progress as solutions to an imaginary problem. The quoted post adds that doomers are exploiting the data-center backlash as leverage for their real goal: controlling who can build and access AI.
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