Yann LeCun

Lauréat du prix Turing, ancien directeur scientifique de l’IA chez Meta et fondateur d’AMI Labs, il juge « absurde » l’idée d’une extinction par l’IA et soutient que le vrai danger est qu’une poignée d’entreprises s’empare du contrôle de l’IA.

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1988 – 1996Researcher, Adaptive Systems Research Department, AT&T Bell LaboratoriesSource →
1996 – 2002Head of Image Processing Research Department, AT&T Labs-ResearchSource →
2003 – aujourd’huiSilver Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York UniversityFounding director of the NYU Center for Data Science (2012).Source →
déc. 2013 – 2025Chief AI Scientist (founding director of FAIR), Meta (Facebook)Announced on 19 November 2025 that he was leaving after 12 years; AMI Labs' page dates the departure to November 2025.Source →
15 déc. 2025 – aujourd’huiFounder and Executive Chairman, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), ParisCEO Alexandre LeBrun; announced a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation on 9–10 March 2026.Source →

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3 juil. 2026 · Publication · X
The concentration of power in AI and the desire for control is by far the biggest danger of AI.
Founder and Executive Chairman, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), Paris à l’époque
Replying to Andy Konwinski; original post is x.com/ylecun/status/2073037974153896312, where he compares closed AI to "the Ottoman empire banning the use of the printing press for 200 years".
Perplexity Co-Founder: AI Safety Is an Excuse to Lock Down Frontier →
oct. 2024 · Entretien · The Wall Street Journal
You're going to have to pardon my French, but that's complete B.S.
Chief AI Scientist (founding director of FAIR), Meta (Facebook) à l’époque
Asked whether AI could become smart enough to threaten humanity; TechCrunch reported the WSJ interview on 12 October 2024.
Meta's Yann LeCun says worries about AI's existential threat are 'complete B.S.' →
13 févr. 2024 · Entretien · TIME
It's not like one day, we're going to build some gigantic computer and turn it on, and then the next minute it is going to take over the world. That's the preposterous scenario.
Chief AI Scientist (founding director of FAIR), Meta (Facebook) à l’époque
Added that "AI systems, as smart as they might be, will be subservient to us" and that "the future has to be open source".
Meta's AI Chief Yann LeCun on AGI, Open-Source, and AI Risk →
29 oct. 2023 · Publication · X
If your fear-mongering campaigns succeed, they will *inevitably* result in what you and I would identify as a catastrophe: a small number of companies will control AI
Chief AI Scientist (founding director of FAIR), Meta (Facebook) à l’époque
Addressed to Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell; named Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei as attempting "regulatory capture of the AI industry". Original post is x.com/ylecun/status/1718670073391378694.
Meta's Yann LeCun joins 70 others in calling for more openness in AI development →