# Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun is a machine-learning researcher known for work on neural networks and arguments about how AI can learn.

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[Collection](/entities/yann-lecun)
[Original website](https://cims.nyu.edu/people/profiles/LECUN_Yann.html)

## Sources

- [Lex Fridman Podcast](https://lexfridman.com/podcast/): Find sustained conversations connecting intelligence, science, politics and human experience.

## Perspectives

- [People need room to shape their own AI](/perspectives?position=lecun-open-model-pluralism) (Yann LeCun): LeCun argues that a few companies should not control everyone’s information. He proposes widely available base models that communities can adapt to their languages, values and needs, making pluralism a design goal.

## Terminal notes


## Parallels

- [Access is a beginning](/parallels?parallel=access-and-power): Who can turn access to AI into a real choice?

## Context references

- [https://cims.nyu.edu/people/profiles/LECUN\_Yann.html](https://cims.nyu.edu/people/profiles/LECUN_Yann.html)
- [https://lexfridman.com/podcast/](https://lexfridman.com/podcast/)
- [https://lexfridman.com/yann-lecun-3-transcript/](https://lexfridman.com/yann-lecun-3-transcript/)

Latest published distillations: [Publications API](/api/pipeline/publications?entity=yann-lecun)