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Yann LeCun

Chief AI Scientist

About

Turing laureate and the loudest credentialed dismisser of existential risk; frames safety concern as doomerism.

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  • Cade Metz — Technology correspondent, The New York Times

    • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Jan 26, 2026 — Extensive profile of LeCun's exit from Meta and his 'world models' critique of LLM-centric AI development; LeCun himself shared and praised the piece on Threads/Facebook/LinkedIn.
    • Social interactiondirectness unclassified · Mar 15, 2021 — LeCun publicly praised Metz's book 'Genius Makers' on X, establishing a long-running rapport between the two predating the AI boom.

  • Kara Swisher — Host, On and Pivot; technology journalist, Independent

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Dec 21, 2024 — Live-interviewed LeCun on open-source AI, model risk, and regulation at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center; LeCun shared the interview video on X.

  • Lex Fridman — Host, Lex Fridman Podcast, Independent

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Mar 7, 2024 — Hosted LeCun for episode #416 on limits of LLMs, open source, and AGI.

  • Kevin Roose — Technology columnist; co-host, Hard Fork, The New York Times

    • Quoted / citeddirectness unclassified · Feb 16, 2024 — LeCun publicly rebutted claims Roose and Newton made about him on a Hard Fork episode.

  • Charlie Warzel — Staff writer, The Atlantic

    • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Nov 27, 2023 — Piece situates LeCun among diverging AI-safety viewpoints among prominent researchers amid the OpenAI board crisis coverage (indirect reference, not a direct quote).