Godfather of AI Yann LeCun opposes Dario Amodei’s call of slowing down AI development, says ‘Anthropic is trying to scare governments by saying…’

Yann LeCun, Turing Award winner and widely recognised as one of the three “godfathers of AI,” has pushed back against calls to slow down artificial intelligence (AI) development, accusing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using alarmist messaging to lobby regulators and restrict public access to the technology.