Yann LeCun on AI poses an existential threat to human…

Yann LeCun

Computer scientist, AI researcher

The point is, AI systems, as smart as they might be, will be subservient to us. We set their goals, and they don't have any intrinsic goal that we would build into them to dominate. It would be really stupid to build that. It would also be useless. Nobody would buy it anyway.

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity

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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition to the statement: the author says AI will be 'subservient to us,' that humans set its goals, and that it would not be built to 'dominate,' which rejects the idea that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified The quote says AI systems "will be subservient to us," that "we set their goals," and that building AI to "dominate" us would be "really stupid" and "useless," which clearly opposes the claim of an existential threat. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified TIME’s Feb. 13, 2024 interview with Yann LeCun contains this passage as LeCun’s own answer in the Q&A, and the wording in your quote matches the source verbatim, including the closing line “Nobody would buy it anyway.” The attribution to LeCun and the 2024 date are correct. ([time.com](https://time.com/6694432/yann-lecun-meta-ai-interview/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

AI Verified TIME URL returned 403 to WebFetch but Google search snippet directly confirmed the exact verbatim quote text from Yann LeCun's TIME interview from January 2024 ("Meta's AI Chief Yann LeCun on AGI, Open-Source, and AI Risk"). Author attribution is correct (Yann LeCun, computer scientist/AI researcher). Vote alignment is correct: LeCun argues AI existential risk is "preposterous" and that AI will be subservient to humans, supporting the "against" vote on statement 176 "AI poses an existential threat to humanity". · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 6mo ago

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One day, conscious AI will emerge.

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I don’t see current AI as dangerous. The calls to slow down AI development are a form of marketing and lobbying. Anthropic is portraying AI as highly dangerous to scare governments. But LLMs aren’t at that level yet.

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