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 | v3m2EjQKlU |
| 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 29, 2026, 10:42 PM |
| Updated | Apr 18, 2026, 10:33 AM |
| Synced | Apr 18, 2026, 10:33 AM |
Record Data
id | v3m2EjQKlU |
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
Last checked: 4/16/2026
The source text explicitly confirms that Yann LeCun is a stakeholder in the SB 1047 policy debate. The article's headline and opening paragraph clearly identify him as a key figure opposing California's SB 1047 bill. The record correctly identifies him as a stakeholder related to this policy, though the '(unknown)' designation in the record appears to refer to an unknown affiliation or position, which is not contradicted by the source—the source confirms his role as 'chief AI scientist at Meta' but the record's structure suggests the affiliation field may have been incomplete at the time of record creation.
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