Yann LeCun: "Better AI is safer AI" — pacing AI progress is counterproductive
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-09-17
Yann LeCun argues against AI "pacing" with an aviation analogy: airplanes became safer through accelerated progress, with reliable turbofan engines letting long-haul jets fly on just two of them. The same applies to AI, he says — better AI is safer AI, and any form of slowing progress is counterproductive.
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