Yann LeCun versus the X-Risk Cabal

Or, what is the Zero Probability - High Impact Threat Model anyway?

[Note: This article was originally published on May 22, 2024 at my Inside AI Warfare newsletter, now closed]

When Jan Leike announced on X that he quit his job at OpenAI last week "because we urgently need to figure out how to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us," it prompted a response from Meta's Chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, a leading s…