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As federal regulations loom for the AI ​​industry, Meta’s top AI staff appears to be pursuing an interesting strategy to dissuade regulators from cracking down: Tell them that AI isn’t particularly impressive, so how about just not messing with new laws, okay? Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, said in an interview with the Financial Times that other tech alarmists were actually pushing for “regulatory action under the guise of AI safety.” Companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft greatly exaggerate the threat of their new technology in order to get regulators to pass laws that they (the tech companies) help write.