What if I told you there was a technology where 1.5 million people would die every year and injure 50 million would you sign up for that tec…

What if I told you there was a technology where 1.5 million people would die every year and injure 50 million would you sign up for that tech? Hell no, right? But the answer is actually "hell yes" because it's cars. You probably got in one today and never even thought it could kill you. You normalized the risk so easily. In contrast, the amount of people who died or were injured by AI is a tiny fraction of a percent and even those cases are probably specious at best. In fact, AI has actually saved countless lives. It's saved lives through drug discovery by helping create the COVID and flu vaccines. It's saved lives through anti-lock breaks. It's saved lives with self driving cars that are 10X safer than human drivers and yet the only thing you read about self driving cars in the news are the incredibly rare stories of the very few times it did actually kill a dog or injure someone. If that sounds irrational and insane that's because it is. We're worried about a technology with a nearly perfect track record of safety and are totally fine with a technology that kills people every day? Welcome to the irrationality of the human mind! Superintelligent machines can't come fast enough because the real problem is not intelligence in the world. It's the utter lack of it.

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Source: Yann LeCun (X) | 2026-04-26