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. Speaking during an interview on the morning of October 12 at the Westin Chosun Seoul in Jung-gu, the co-founder and chairman of AMI Labs addressed the intensifying divide across Silicon Valley over safety regulations and model releases.“It’s natural for companies to release products with safety measures to prevent harm to people,” said LeCun, who won the 2018 Turing Award alongside Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton for pioneering the foundations of computer vision and image recognition, was in South Korea for the Industrial AI Global Cooperation Meeting ahead of the IIAC 2026 conference in Tokyo.
