LeCun Says He Has 'Zero Concerns' About Human Extinction, Calls Amodei 'Deluded'
marigo · x · 2026-10-03
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun told Fortune he has "zero concerns" about AI causing human extinction and said Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's constant warnings show he is "deluded".
Key points:
- LeCun shared the 2018 Turing Award with Hinton and Bengio for deep learning, but is the only one of the three AI "godfathers" not deeply worried about AI risk.
- He believes risk warnings from leading AI company executives are overblown and misguided.
- The comments continue his long-running clash with the doom-leaning camp led by Amodei.
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