Calm Down Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist and a so-called “godfather” of the tech, wants you to know that all the doomsday prophesying over AI’s potential to destroy humanity is downright “preposterous.” We’ve been watching too many movies, he thinks. AI models won’t turn on us a la “The Terminator” — and there’s no reason to believe they’d inherently want to seize control from their creators in the first place. “Intelligence has nothing to do with a desire to dominate,” LeCun told the Financial Times. “It’s not even true for humans.” “If it were true that the smartest humans wanted to dominate others, then Albert Einstein and other scientists would have been both rich and powerful, and they were neither,” he added. Stands Alone LeCun’s stance makes him not only an outlier among other leaders of the industry, but also among the two other AI “godfathers”: Geoffrey Hinton, formerly of Google, and Yoshua Bengio, founder and current director of the Mila – Quebec AI Institute. Both have expressed regret over the AI tech they pioneered, and have warned that it may well destroy us. Needless to say, their Oppenheimer overtones have been far from reassuring. But that kind of talk is a load of bull, according to LeCun, who says that researchers are vastly overestimating the capabilities of current AI models. “[AI models] just do not understand how the world works,” LeCun told the FT. “They’re not capable of planning. They’re not capable of real reasoning,” he said. “We do…Godfather of AI Tells Us to Stop Freaking Out Over Its "Existential Risk" To Humanity