Even a stopped clock is right two times a day, LeCun can't even do that.

>the danger is not intrinsic to the technology

This is why you can't take anything he says any longer at face value. He failed to predict what LLMs can do and now takes the contrary position even when it flies in the face of evidence.

AI safety was a thing before AI even existed. Why, because the outcomes are easily predictable. Give an agent intelligence and bad things can happen in unpredictable manners. Give it even more intelligence and the bad things that can happen only grow worse. This is not some huge new insight. We realized this like, what 70 years ago now?

Now, when we have AI starting to tickle AGI and we're trying to overthrow 70 god damned years of reason and logic on the topic? What the hell.

Every danger related to technology is about the use of that technology,aka Humans. Technology is mostly inert. Again, what is he saying? Is he saying that because humans fallible, not the tech, then there is no danger? He wakes up at 6am, and by 10am this is what he thinks is worth saying?