LeCun resurfaces warning that Altman, Hassabis, Amodei seek AI regulatory capture

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Today Yann LeCun said on X, posting a reminder of a thread from three years ago, that Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei "are the ones doing massive corporate lobbying at the moment" and "are attempting to perform a regulatory capture of the AI industry." He wrote that if fear-mongering campaigns for bans on open AI research and development succeed, "a small number of companies will control AI." [1]

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  1. @ylecun (X): Altman, Hassabis, and Amodei are the ones doing massive corporate lobbying at the moment. They are the ones who are attempting to perform a

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  2. @ylecun (X): There is more time between the transformer paper (2017) and ChatGPT (Late 2022) than between the original JEPA paper (2022) and now.

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