Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports
THE SO WHAT
A Turing Award winner publicly saying he has “zero concerns” about rogue agents while calling a leading lab CEO “deluded” on risk shows the epistemic split on AI safety is now out in the open. Boards and executives can’t outsource their risk posture to “expert consensus” — there isn’t one, so you need your own documented view.
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