I don't like the tone and thoughts of Yann LeCun (who I deeply respect for his technical work) in this interview at all. Unfortunately, he also has a clear conf

I don't like the tone and thoughts of Yann LeCun (who I deeply respect for his technical work) in this interview at all. Unfortunately, he also has a clear conflict of interest in this discussion, as lead AI at Meta. He basically waves any concerns of near-future superhuman intelligence away, saying that these models have a superficial world model. This both ignores (a) the fact that interpretability and alignment research severely lags behind the rate of new, more powerful models being release, so there's little data/science to back that claim up, and (b) it sounds like he misjudges the current geometric rate at which AI is improving, which can make AGI more near-term than expected. I also really detest his us of the "AI Doomers" stigmatization, which is nothing short of an ad hominem to those who have more strong concerns than he himself has. Not very constructive.