AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather

• An AI godfather has had it with the doomsdayers.
• Meta’s Yann LeCun thinks tech bosses’ bleak comments on AI risks could do more harm than good.
• The naysaying is actually about keeping control of AI in the hands of a few, he said.

AI godfather Yann LeCun wants us to forget some of the more far-fetched doomsday scenarios.

He sees a different, real threat on the horizon: the rise of power hungry one-percenters who rob everyone else of AI’s riches.