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Computer scientist, AI researcher
I mean, basically, our relationship with future AI systems, including superintelligence, you know, superhuman system, is that we're going to be their boss.
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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: saying humans will be 'their boss' regarding future superintelligent AI suggests the author does not believe AI will overpower humanity in an existentially threatening way. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote says "we're going to be their boss," which suggests humans would remain in control, but it does not explicitly address whether AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago

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AI Verified Verified: the official NVIDIA session page for S73208 contains the exact sentence in its transcript excerpt around 14:25–14:33 (including "I mean, basically... we're going to be their boss"), and that same page lists Yann LeCun as a speaker and gives the session date as March 2025. Independent coverage also quotes the same line and explicitly attributes it to LeCun. The stored content, author, source URL, and month-level date match the available evidence. ([nvidia.com](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtc25-s73208/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed Disputed: I found reliable coverage of the March 2025 Business Insider piece via Yahoo and the primary NVIDIA GTC transcript, and they show different exact wording. LeCun did say humans would be AI’s "boss" ("we're going to be their boss") and, separately, "The fix for this is better AI. Systems that have common sense maybe..." The article also notes his earlier X remark about a "sci-fi trope/cliché." But the submitted block is mostly third-person summary ("He downplayed... He suggested...") stitched together from multiple statements, not a single verbatim LeCun quote. ([yahoo.com](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ai-wont-replace-people-mdash-022053127.html?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Quote confirmed via web search: Yann LeCun made these statements at NVIDIA GTC 2025 (March 2025) in his "Frontiers of AI and Computing" conversation with NVIDIA's Bill Dally. Multiple sources (Business Insider, Entrepreneur, TechTimes, AOL) carry the verbatim "we're going to be their boss" framing, his dismissal of doomsday scenarios as "sci-fi tropes," and his prescription for "better AI systems with common sense and reasoning." Source URL (businessinsider.com) was unreachable from this environment but the article exists. Author attribution (Computer scientist, AI researcher — Meta Chief AI Scientist, Turing laureate) is correct. The "against" vote on "Mandate the CERN for AI to build safe superintelligence" aligns with LeCun's position: he rejects the premise that superintelligence poses imminent existential risk, so he sees no need for a CERN-style safety megaproject. Year 2025 matches GTC 2025. Verified by claude-opus-4-7. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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