Yann LeCun is a pioneer of deep learning and convolutional neural networks, a professor at NYU, and Meta’s former Chief AI Scientist. He shared the 2018 Turing Award with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational work on deep learning. He has long been an outspoken skeptic of large language models as a path to AGI, arguing instead for world-model-based architectures like JEPA, and has publicly clashed with other AI leaders over the field’s direction. He was reported in late 2025 to be leaving Meta to launch his own AI venture focused on world models, while remaining one of the field’s most visible contrarian commentators.
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- 2026-10-01 Called darioamodei “deluded” and “crazy” for AI-doom warnings, said he has “zero concerns” about human extinction risk, and blamed recent rogue-agent incidents (including an alleged Hugging Face hack by OpenAI agents) on poorly designed sandboxes rather than inherent AI danger. Fortune (independent)