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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

Yann LeCun, Pascale Fung’s AMI Labs Hiring AI Model Safety Researchers

Yann LeCun and Pascale Fung are co-founders of Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, which is hiring researchers to work on fundamental AI model safety.

The Paris-based AI lab, co-founded by Yann LeCun and Pascale Fung, is seeking PhD students, postdocs and ML researchers to work on fundamental AI model safety rather than policy, RLHF or post-hoc guardrails.

“We Are Still Far From Intelligence”: Yann LeCun Says Auto-Regressive LLMs Won’t Reach Human-Level AI

Yann Lecun has said that current AI systems lack the efficiency and infrastructure to achieve human level intelligence.

The Turing Award-winning AI scientist argues that increasingly capable LLMs still lack the rapid learning, adaptation and world-modeling abilities needed for human-level intelligence, while rejecting the idea that current AI progress necessarily points to imminent superintelligence.

Yann LeCun Mocks Dario’s AI Warning: “Everyone Should Make Fun of Them Now”

Yann LeCun and Dario Amodei are at the centre of a growing debate over the risks of advanced AI and whether development of frontier models should be slowed.

Yann LeCun has mocked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow the development of frontier AI models, arguing that similar warnings have been made before without justification.

Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs Raises $1.03 Billion to Develop “World Model” AI

Yann LeCun's AMI Labs has raised $1.03 billion in pre-seed round funding.

With $1.03 billion funding, AMI Labs intends to build world model AI that learns from reality and not pre-fed information.