Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU). He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before co-founding Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in December 2025.
"The integration of neural networks into our daily lives means a profound challenge to our understanding of consciousness, making it the most important technology of our century."
"We must ensure that AI remains a profound challenge to our understanding of consciousness, proving that our greatest invention is intelligence itself."