‘AI won’t take over humans, it will amplify human intelligence’: Meta AI chief Yann LeCun

“AI is not going to dominate us or take over humanity, it’s going to amplify human intelligence,” said Yann LeCun, vice president and chief AI scientist, at Meta’s first Build with AI Summit held in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

The AI scientist believes using AI assistants is like having a team of intelligent people at one’s disposal, and said that these assistants are often smarter than the users. “AI assistance might eventually be smarter than us, but we shouldn’t feel threatened by that and should feel empowered,” LeCun said.