{"id":176221,"date":"2023-11-18T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T06:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/godfather-of-ai-warns-that-powerful-companies-are-seizing-control-of-it"},"modified":"2023-11-18T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T06:23:07","slug":"godfather-of-ai-warns-that-powerful-companies-are-seizing-control-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/godfather-of-ai-warns-that-powerful-companies-are-seizing-control-of-it","title":{"rendered":"Godfather of AI Warns That Powerful Companies Are Seizing Control of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/godfather-of-ai-warns-that-powerful-companies-are-seizing-control-of-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meta executive and \u201cgodfather of artificial intelligence\u201d Yann LeCun has had it with people ringing the alarm bells about a hypothetical AI doomsday.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ylecun\/status\/1718670073391378694?s=20\" class=\"\">lengthy post on X-formerly-Twitter<\/a>, the computer scientist argued that there\u2019s a far bigger threat hovering over the burgeoning industry: powerful companies seizing control of the future of AI and using it to prop up their wealth and influence.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pertinent point, as an increasingly smaller number of AI companies are starting to emerge as the early winners in the AI race, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/openai-signals-destroy-startups-using-its-tech\" class=\"\">claiming an ever-growing slice<\/a> of the highly lucrative AI pie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta executive and \u201cgodfather of artificial intelligence\u201d Yann LeCun has had it with people ringing the alarm bells about a hypothetical AI doomsday. In a lengthy post on X-formerly-Twitter, the computer scientist argued that there\u2019s a far bigger threat hovering over the burgeoning industry: powerful companies seizing control of the future of AI and using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}