Turing Award winner Yann LeCun has rejected claims that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity, stating he holds no concerns over recent rogue AI events. He criticised Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, arguing that doomsday rhetoric causes undue public anxiety and risks harmful government regulation.
INTERPOL says AI is now linked to 55% of reported cybercrime across Africa, with losses more than doubling to $484 million in a single year. The real story isn't that AI is new to fraud — it's that everything else was already too slow to keep up with it.
Arguing about a hypothetical future system is more comfortable than arguing about the deployed ones. That is largely why it is so popular.
A number that improves every quarter is reassuring and largely decorative. Measuring what a system is good at is much harder than ranking it.
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