Post by @oliver_schafeld@mastodon.online

2026-10-02 04:29 UTC

»Many people working in AI safety “usually have an agenda to push,” LeCun says, and then clarifies that he’s talking about effective altruism, or EA, the philosophical movement that has been obsessed with the risks AI poses to humanity. […] LeCun thinks EA is “super toxic” and a “complete disaster.” Its adherents who are working in AI labs suffer from “paranoia” that causes them to make poor decisions, he said. “Apparently people are having mental issues.”« https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-says-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-is-deuded/

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@oliver_schafeld@mastodon.online 2026-10-02 04:33

»Amodei is “honest,” LeCun concedes. “He’s trying to do the best thing for the company, which is close to its IPO. But claiming AI is too dangerous to put in our hands, and saying it should be regulated, and saying open-source [models] are too dangerous—this is regulatory capture that would have a terrible effect if it’s followed by acts of Congress.”« https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-says-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-is-deuded/ Regulatory capture to keep open-source (non US) competition out. As many guessed.

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@gbargoud@masto.nyc 2026-10-02 11:39

@oliver_schafeld@mastodon.online Effective Altruism hijacking the term "AI Safety" from actual people working in AI safety like the DAIR Institute has made conversations about it extremely frustrating

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