LeCun boosts AI doom skepticism: history shows expert doomsday predictions usually fail
ylecun · x · 2026-09-16
Yann LeCun retweeted Pessimists Archive to counter the argument that 'if AI creators say it may kill us, we should listen.' The account notes experts have historically issued doom predictions about their own inventions that never materialized, framing AI existential fears in that pattern of failed technological pessimism.
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