Safety advocate hits back at LeCun: past AI predictions flopped while Dario succeeded
IgorKurganov · x · 2026-09-16
Igor Kurganov pushes back on Yann LeCun's mockery of AI safety concerns in a thread involving Evan Hubinger:
- He argues that GPT-2 not being a threat doesn't prove safety advocates' worries were insincere — the point is what explains their behavior.
- He criticizes LeCun for claiming on the Lex Fridman podcast that AI wouldn't do certain things for 1000 years, only for AI to achieve them within 6 months.
- He adds that LeCun failed at Meta while Dario Amodei succeeded at both OpenAI and Anthropic.
A pointed but evidence-free salvo in the ongoing safety-camp vs. LeCun feud.
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