# AI Doom Scenarios Are Complete B.S by Yann LeCun > "You’re going to have to pardon my French, but [the idea of AI becoming smart enough to pose a threat to humanity is] complete B.S." > **— Yann LeCun**, *2024, response to extreme AI-threat scenarios* ## Sources and Context - **Exact original source passage:** Asked about “AI becoming smart enough to pose a threat to humanity,” LeCun replied, “You’re going to have to pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.” - **Editorial repair and evidence:** Brackets replace “that” with the question’s stated proposition. LeCun’s dismissal remains scoped to the threat claim he was answering. [TechCrunch’s report of the Wall Street Journal interview](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/12/metas-yann-lecun-says-worries-about-a-i-s-existential-threat-are-complete-b-s/), published October 12, 2024. No timecode is asserted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Article:** [[articles/Authorship After the Threshold|Authorship After the Threshold]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Yann LeCun|Yann LeCun]] - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/OpenAI Frontier|OpenAI Frontier]] - [[wiki/Control Theory|Control Theory]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "You’re going to have to pardon my French, but [the idea of AI becoming smart enough to pose a threat to humanity is] complete B.S." — Yann LeCun, 2024, response to extreme AI-threat scenarios https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-yann-lecun-ai-scenarios-b-s ```