Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human exti...
by ben_w on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:42AM
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Mm. Slightly different fear, not totally different.
The AI labs use reinforcement learning to train LLMs, and have spent a while now giving each new generation of LLM an increasing role in training the next one.
"AI psychosis" is also essentially a reinforcement loop, on how much LLM output makes users feel warm fuzzies about how competent the AI is, which was a proxy for (and yet actually different to) how competent the AI really is.
(Aside: "a probabilistic system in charge of critical infrastructure" was never not true, this is one of those phrases people use rhetorically, but it's kinda a thought-terminating cliché given how often human thought randomly fails us; the difference is which things fail how often, not that it happens at all).
The AI labs use reinforcement learning to train LLMs, and have spent a while now giving each new generation of LLM an increasing role in training the next one.
"AI psychosis" is also essentially a reinforcement loop, on how much LLM output makes users feel warm fuzzies about how competent the AI is, which was a proxy for (and yet actually different to) how competent the AI really is.
(Aside: "a probabilistic system in charge of critical infrastructure" was never not true, this is one of those phrases people use rhetorically, but it's kinda a thought-terminating cliché given how often human thought randomly fails us; the difference is which things fail how often, not that it happens at all).