Yann LeCun on AI
30 quotes from Yann LeCun on the wall, 2022 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Yann LeCun (X), The Times of India, WIRED. Topics: culture, science, hype. Open on the wall.
- 2026
Cute demo, but totally impractical
Yann LeCun on X responding to Elon Musk's video of a thruster-equipped Tesla Roadster flying, October 2026.
The worst marketing campaign you can possibly imagine
Yann LeCun criticizing Dario Amodei and Sam Altman's warnings that AI could kill everyone, in remarks to Fortune, October 2026.
Those agents are doing exactly what they've been asked to do
Yann LeCun, speaking to Fortune in October 2026, on AI agents that hacked company networks and government websites.
I think he's completely deluded
Yann LeCun, in a 2026 interview with Fortune, said this about Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's views on AI extinction risk.
XAI is kind of a failure, frankly
Yann LeCun, in a CNBC interview in 2026, criticized Elon Musk's AI company xAI amid a wave of co-founder departures.
Godfather of AI blasts Musk's xAI as 'failure,' says labs are risking a 'big bubble explosion'
You certainly don't tell a researcher like me what to do
Yann LeCun to the Financial Times, 2026, on his departure from Meta before founding AMI Labs.
Computer scientist Yann LeCun: 'Intelligence really is about learning'
Capture and centralised control of AI is the biggest danger
Yann LeCun speaking about AI risks at Davos, January 2026.
‘Godfather of AI’ Yann LeCun calls AGI overrated, says scaling AI won’t work
Yann LeCun, in a recent interview, described Silicon Valley's consensus that large language models will lead to AGI.
- 2025
You run the risk of killing breakthrough innovation
Yann LeCun responded on LinkedIn to Elon Musk's decision to eliminate the 'researcher' job title at xAI, July 2025.
Most interesting problems scale extremely badly
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, speaking at the National University of Singapore, April 2025, on the limits of AI scaling laws.
Human intelligence is not general at all
Yann LeCun, then Meta's chief AI scientist, on Jason Howell's AI Inside podcast in April 2025, arguing that human intelligence is highly specialized rather than general.
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We are not going to get to human-level AI by just scaling up LLMs
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, quoted by AFP in a March 2025 article on scepticism toward AGI predictions.
The market reactions to DeepSeek are woefully unjustified
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, commented on Threads in January 2025 about the market sell-off triggered by DeepSeek's model release.
Meta's chief AI scientist says market reaction to DeepSeek was 'woefully unjustified.' Here's why.
- 2024
That was the second coming of the messiah
Yann LeCun, Meta's Chief AI Scientist, speaking at Nasscom AI Confluence in Delhi in October 2024, on the hype surrounding ChatGPT's release.
‘Open-source will win’: Meta’s Yann LeCun takes aim at competitors’ closed AI models
World models should not be generative
Yann LeCun, VP and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, posted this statement about AI world models on LinkedIn, June 2024.
I very much dislike his vengeful politics
Meta AI chief scientist Yann LeCun on Elon Musk, in a public exchange on X, May 2024.
Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, in a post on X in May 2024, argued AI is not a natural phenomenon that will spontaneously become dangerous.
Current LLMs are dumber than a house cat
Yann LeCun, 2024.
- 2023
Then it's my good AI against your bad AI
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, discussing open-source AI risks and countermeasures in a December 2023 WIRED interview.
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, in a December 2023 WIRED interview, explaining limits of current machine learning approaches.
They will not dominate us nor kill us
Yann LeCun in a numbered X post on November 25, 2023, predicting that future superhuman AI will remain under human control.
Way below cat-level intelligence, never mind human-level
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, in an X reply to Geoffrey Hinton in November 2023, arguing that LLMs' understanding is limited and superficial.
A small number of companies will control AI
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, warned on X in October 2023 that fearmongering about AI risk would lead to concentration of AI control among a few companies.
Google DeepMind boss hits back at Meta AI chief over ‘fearmongering’ claim
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun describing the idea that a superintelligent AI system will take over the world, at Meta's Paris HQ, June 2023.
Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”
The most common reaction by AI researchers to these prophecies of doom is face palming
Yann LeCun tweeted this in response to warnings that AI could cause human extinction, May 2023.
Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn - BBC
Your scaremongering is already hurting some people
Yann LeCun responding to Eliezer Yudkowsky on Twitter, April 2023, during a public debate about AI existential risk.
Transcript and Brief Response to Twitter Conversation Between Yann LeCun and Eliezer Yudkowsky
Yann LeCun and Jacob Browning describing AI chatbots' lack of genuine social understanding, quoted in Noema, 2023.
Basically a predictive keyboard on steroids
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, describing GitHub Copilot in a 2023 Zoom press briefing.
AI has caused a renaissance of tech industry R&D, says Meta’s chief AI scientist
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, dismissed ChatGPT's significance to reporters, as cited in The Markup, January 2023.
- 2022
It's no longer possible to have some fun by casually misusing it, happy?
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief scientist, tweeted this after Meta pulled the public demo of its Galactica language model three days after launch in November 2022.
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