Yann LeCun slams rushed House AI legislation as a used-car-salesman pressure tactic
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-12
Yann LeCun quoted an Axios scoop that Speaker Mike Johnson was urged to cancel the House recess over AI doom warnings, and criticized the move as a time-pressure tactic "like a used car salesman" to pass legislation everyone would regret — except big labs, their margins, and their lobbyists.
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