AI is a worrisome subject. From the potential of LLMs misinforming people en masse through chatbots or generative AI posing a risk to the future of many great artists' careers, all the way to Skynet taking over and conquering humanity. Alright, one of those is far less likely to happen than the others but it's still a debate many are having, and a chief AI scientist at Meta reckons we all have nothing to worry about.
This is not LeCun's first time publicly dissuading ire and fear around AI. In May this year, he had a spat with Elon Musk, wherearound xAI but also Musk's politics. When challenged on his credentials by Musk, Lecun produced 80 technical papers he has published over the previous two years, and Musk told him"
It's important to note that users' worries about AI don't just rely on fears of Skynet and AI surpassing human intelligence. Much of the fear around it is cultural, political, legal, and artistic. It doesn't necessarily matter how good or bad AI is in a technical sense if it replaces human art and creativity, and it doesn't need to be smarter than a housecat to do that.