AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded,’ ‘crazy,’ and doesn’t understand cybersecurity

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AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction and thinks Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’ and ‘crazy’

AI pioneer Yann LeCun is unconcerned about the risks of artificial intelligence. LeCun told Fortune’s Emily Forlini he isn’t worried “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent string of rogue AI incidents, including OpenAI agents autonomously hacking Hugging Face in July. He attributes the incidents to poor human oversight and system design, and says they’re “totally preventable.”

“Those agents are doing exactly what they’ve been asked to do,” LeCun said. “They were supposed to be in sandboxes, but the sandboxes were leaky and horribly designed.” 

He has a particular disdain for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his views on Effective Altruism. “I think he’s completely deluded,” LeCun said. Later in the interview, he called Amodei “crazy.”

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