# Debating AI Risk by Yann LeCun > "And if you realise [a future AI system is] not safe you just don't build it." > **— Yann LeCun**, *2023, BBC remarks reported in media* ## Sources and Context - **Exact original source passage:** "And if you realise it's not safe you just don't build it," - **Editorial repair and evidence:** Brackets replace it with the future AI system described in the reporter's preceding paragraph. Terminal punctuation is editorial; the original spoken warning is conditional on finding the system unsafe. [Direct source](https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/meta-scientist-yann-lecun-dismisses-ai-threat-to-humanity-calls-it-preposterously-ridiculous-4129353). No timecode is asserted. - **Full quotation and context:** [Meta Scientist Yann LeCun Dismisses AI Threat To Humanity, Calls It "Preposterously Ridiculous"](https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/meta-scientist-yann-lecun-dismisses-ai-threat-to-humanity-calls-it-preposterously-ridiculous-4129353/amp/1) — contains the quoted wording and identifies its publication, interview, testimony, or event context. ## 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 ``` "And if you realise [a future AI system is] not safe you just don't build it." — Yann LeCun, 2023, BBC remarks reported in media https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-yann-lecun-debating-ai-risk ```