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AI 'godfather' Yann LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is 'deluded'

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Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom. But today, nearly a decade later, LeCun is the only…

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  1. 2026-10-01 17:14 · r/OpenAI
    AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’
  2. 2026-10-01 17:13 · r/singularity
    AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’
  3. 2026-10-01 17:12 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’
  4. 2026-10-01 16:19 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    AI 'godfather' Yann LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is 'deluded'

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