As federal regulations loom for the AI industry, Meta’s top AI guy seems to be attempting an interesting strategy to dissuade regulators from cracking down: tell them that, actually, AI isn’t all that impressive so how about just don’t bother with any new laws, alright? Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, said in an interview with the Financial Times that other tech alarmists were actually pushing for “regulatory capture under the guise of AI safety.” Firms like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, have been running around greatly exaggerating the threat of their new technology so that they can goad regulators into passing laws that they (the tech firms) have some hand in writing.
