Meta’s AI Chief Is in the Middle of a Public Clash With Elon Musk: ‘Secrecy Hampers Progress’

A leading AI researcher has publicly called out Elon Musk for his “blatantly false” AI predictions as the clash between the two continues after a week of back-and-forth.

In a Sunday post on Musk-owned X, Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said that he disagreed with Elon Musk’s treatment of scientists and approach to the AI hype.

“I mean, expressing an ambitious vision for the future is great,” LeCun wrote. “But telling the public blatantly false predictions (“AGI next year”, “1 million robotaxis by 2020”, “AGI will kill us all, lets pause”,…) is very counterproductive (also illegal in some cases).”

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