--- title: "Yann LeCun: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Yann LeCun, Computer scientist. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-yann-lecun source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Yann LeCun, Yann LeCun AI, Yann LeCun quotes, Yann LeCun statements, Yann LeCun on AI, what Yann LeCun said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Yann LeCun, Computer scientist. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-yann-lecun The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Yann LeCun [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-yann-lecun) Computer scientist · Independent ## Why now No headline this week names Yann LeCun. ## What they said 6 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Yann LeCun, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Sep 9, 2026 In the record · as compiled by Axios, statement · Pushback "Put the p(doom) case below the odds of a nuclear holocaust, as compiled by Axios" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/09/ai-doom-pdoom-kill-all-humans-anthropic) - Jan 23, 2026 In the record "We're never going to get to human-level intelligence by training LLMs or by training on text only. We need the real world" [Events](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-events) · [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/01/23/deepmind-demis-hassabis-anthropic-dario-amodei-yann-lecun-ai-davos/) - Dec 19, 2025 In the record "Yes, AMI Labs is my new startup. I'm the Executive Chairman." [Robotics & World Models](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-robotics) · [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/yann-lecun-confirms-his-new-world-model-startup-reportedly-seeks-5b-valuation) - Jan 23, 2025 In the record "I think the shelf life of the current [LLM] paradigm is fairly short, probably three to five years." [Events](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-events) · [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/metas-yann-lecun-predicts-a-new-ai-architectures-paradigm-within-5-years-and-decade-of-robotics) - Feb 13, 2024 In the record "The future has to be open source, if nothing else, for reasons of cultural diversity, democracy, diversity." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Open vs Closed Source](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-open) · [TIME](https://time.com/6694432/yann-lecun-meta-ai-interview/) - Jun 15, 2023 In the record "Will A.I. take over the world? No, this is a projection of human nature on machines" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Fortune](https://fortune.com/europe/2023/06/15/yann-lecun-ai-godfather-destroy-humanity-threat) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Yann%20LeCun#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Yann LeCun ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Jun 15, 2023 ["Will A.I. take over the world? No, this is a projection of human nature on machines"](https://fortune.com/europe/2023/06/15/yann-lecun-ai-godfather-destroy-humanity-threat) - Feb 13, 2024 ["The future has to be open source, if nothing else, for reasons of cultural diversity, democracy, diversity."](https://time.com/6694432/yann-lecun-meta-ai-interview/) - Sep 9, 2026 [Put the p(doom) case below the odds of a nuclear holocaust, as compiled by Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/09/ai-doom-pdoom-kill-all-humans-anthropic) - Jan 23, 2025 ["I think the shelf life of the current [LLM] paradigm is fairly short, probably three to five years."](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/metas-yann-lecun-predicts-a-new-ai-architectures-paradigm-within-5-years-and-decade-of-robotics) - Jan 23, 2026 ["We're never going to get to human-level intelligence by training LLMs or by training on text only. We need the real world"](https://fortune.com/2026/01/23/deepmind-demis-hassabis-anthropic-dario-amodei-yann-lecun-ai-davos/) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Yann LeCun. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Yann LeCun with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.