# Everyone Should Make Fun of AI Doomers by Yann LeCun > “I made fun of [AI doomers] then. Everyone should make fun of them now.” > **— Yann LeCun**, *Sep. 2026; AI researcher; professor at NYU; former Meta Chief AI Scientist* ## Sources and Context - **Direct or near-primary source:** [Open source](https://www.sotwe.com/AlwaysNever0001?lang=en) — SOCIAL / MIRROR • X post by Yann LeCun, captured by multiple public X mirrors Supplied exact wording: “I made fun of them then. Everyone should make fun of them now.” Context supplied in the dossier: “Responding to a reminder that Dario Amodei had called GPT-2 too dangerous to open-source in 2019:” - **Editorial clarification:** Square brackets in the Reminder make the supplied source context explicit. Supplied wording variant(s): “I made fun of them then. Everyone should make fun of them now.” ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “I made fun of [AI doomers] then. Everyone should make fun of them now.” — Yann LeCun, Sep. 2026; AI researcher; professor at NYU; former Meta Chief AI Scientist https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-yann-lecun-everyone-should-make-fun-of-ai-doomers ```