‘AI Platforms will Control What Everybody Sees,’ Says Meta’s AI Chief Yann LeCun

“Eventually all our interactions with the digital world will be mediated by AI assistants. This means that AI assistants will constitute a repository of all human knowledge and culture; they will constitute a shared infrastructure like the internet is today,” said Yann LeCun, one of the three godfathers of AI, in his talk at GenAI Winter School recently.  He urged platforms to be open-source and said that we cannot have a small number of AI assistants controlling the entire digital diet of every citizen across the world, taking a dig at OpenAI and a few other companies without naming them.  “This will be extremely dangerous for diversity of thought, for democracy, for just about everything”, he added.  There have been examples galore of things going wrong and biases taking the center stage when only a few companies have the power and control to manufacture the ‘cultural understanding’ for the entire world. They either tend to ignore different cultures or