policy-stakeholder
Yann LeCun on Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Child of Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Metadata
| Source Table | policy_stakeholders |
| Source ID | o-d5k3Yz7c |
| Source URL | venturebeat.com/ai/ai-safety-showdown-yann-lecun-slams-californias-sb-1047-as-geoffrey-hinton-backs-new-regulations |
| Parent | Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act |
| Children | — |
| Created | Mar 21, 2026, 1:11 PM |
| Updated | Mar 29, 2026, 10:41 PM |
| Synced | Mar 29, 2026, 10:41 PM |
Record Data
id | o-d5k3Yz7c |
policyEntityId | Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act(policy) |
stakeholderEntityId | Yann LeCun(person) |
stakeholderDisplayName | 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 | venturebeat.com/ai/ai-safety-showdown-yann-lecun-slams-californias-sb-1047-as-ge… |
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" ] |
Source Check Verdicts
confirmed80% confidence
Last checked: 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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