Yann LeCun

The idea that AI will erase 20% of jobs is ridiculously stupid. Some roles will disappear but new ones will emerge, as in past tech shifts.

The idea that AI will erase 20% of jobs is "ridiculously stupid," LeCun says, adding some roles will disappear but new ones will emerge, as in past tech shifts.

There is nothing qualitatively different between the previous technological revolutions and this one, [...] It's just another set of tools that makes us more efficient.

There’s no such thing as AGI. There is human-level AI, but human intelligence is extremely specialised. So calling it general intelligence is complete nonsense.

In the near future, almost all our digital interactions will involve AI assistants. If they come from just a handful of companies in the United States or China, that's not good for democracy or for culture.

Current LLMs are intrinsically unsafe, but with world models, guardrail objectives can be implemented — so by construction, they will not knowingly produce actions that will produce dangerous results.

There is no such thing as an intelligence explosion. There is no reason AI should become in control just because it is more capable.

[LLMs] don't really understand the physical world. They don't really have persistent memory. They can't really reason and they certainly can't plan.