LeCun mocks Musk: built fortune bossing smarter engineers, now says we can't control smarter AI
ylecun · x · 2026-10-24
Yann LeCun poked fun at Elon Musk's claim that "we will not be able to boss around AI that are smarter than us," noting that Musk built his fortune precisely by managing thousands of engineers and scientists far smarter than himself — his usual skeptical take on AI doomerism, delivered as a joke.
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