Yann LeCun

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.

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.

My first reaction to [the letter] is that calling for a delay in research and development smacks me of a new wave of obscurantism,