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· 3/25/2026

Position confirmed via manually curated source URL: https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-safety-showdown-yann-lecun-slams-californias-sb-1047-as-geoffrey-hinton-backs-new-regulations

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Policy: Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Stakeholder: Yann LeCun
Stakeholder: Yann LeCun
Position: oppose
Importance: medium
Reason: Publicly rebuked SB 1047 supporters the day after Hinton endorsed the bill; argued it would have 'apocalyptic consequences on the AI ecosystem' and that 'without open-source AI, there is no AI start-up ecosystem and no academic research on large models'
Source: https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-safety-showdown-yann-lecun-slams-californias-sb-10…
Context: Chief AI Scientist at Meta AI (also opposes),Turing Award with Bengio (supporter) and Hinton (supporter) — all three took different positions,Strong advocate for open-source AI; bill's liability provisions threaten open model releases

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venturebeat.com/ai/ai-safety-showdown-yann-lecun-slams-californias-sb-1047-as-geoffrey-hinton-backs-new-regulations

confirmed80%primary · 3/25/2026

NoteSource URL confirms Yann LeCun's oppose position on Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act. Manually curated source link from YAML data.

Case № o-d5k3Yz7cFiled 3/25/2026Confidence 80%