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Computer scientist, AI researcher
It's not going to take your job—it's going to change your job. [...] It's going to transform society, but it's not going to create mass unemployment.
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AI Verified I verified the quote from another reliable source, though not from the accessible Axios text I found. A June 8, 2026 New Jersey Monthly report on Liberty Science Center’s 2026 Genius Gala attributes the exact wording to Yann LeCun: “It’s not going to take your job—it’s going to change your job” and “[…] It’s going to transform society, but it’s not going to create mass unemployment.” Liberty Science Center’s official gala recap also confirms LeCun accepted an award at that event and that a video of his speech exists. ([njmonthly.com](https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/new-jersey-ai-pioneer-honored-at-liberty-science-centers-2026-genius-gala/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (axios.com) returns HTTP 403 and blocks AI fetching, so I could not directly read the cited page. However, the quote is strongly corroborated via independent web search: multiple outlets (New Jersey Monthly, Yahoo News, AOL) report Yann LeCun making these exact remarks at Liberty Science Center's 2026 Genius Gala — "It's not going to take your job—it's going to change your job" and "It's going to transform society, but it's not going to create mass unemployment." Author attribution (Yann LeCun, AI researcher) is correct, year (2026) is correct, and the vote ("against" the statement "AI will create a permanent underclass") correctly aligns with the quote's optimistic stance against mass unemployment/underclass. Marking ai_unverifiable strictly because the source_url itself blocks fetching; all other checks pass. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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