I spoke with Dr. Yann Lecun, Chief AI Scientist of Meta.

Yann Lecun was the first ever winner of the Turing Award in AI. Before this he was the winner of the A.M. Turing Award for his work in AI, the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, the 2014 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, the IAPR/King-Sun Fu Memorial Award and the National Academy of Engineering Draper Prize for the Development of the Back-propagation Algorithm Which Trained Artificial Neural Networks.<br><br>He is currently the Silver Professor of Computer Science at New York University and Chief AI Scientist at Meta AI.<br><br>I have several times recently asked experts in AI if they ever worried that the speed of development of AI would outstrip our ability to cope with it. They always say no. That we are far from such a moment, and that the rate of development is slowing down, not speeding up. Just a few minutes ago I asked him: “Do you ever worry that the speed of development of AI will outrun our ability to understand it?”<br><br>His response was: “Absolutely. The speed of development of AI is outpacing the speed at which we can understand its impact on society.”