aceAI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
Donald Trump is a “corrupt, senile felon” whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, “godfather” of the technology, in a wide-ranging interview where he doubled down on recent warnings that AI models pose an existential threat to humanity and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself. The pioneering computer scientist, whose work helped lay the foundations of modern AI, has since become one of the technology’s most vocal critics. His latest rem…
Hinton warns that frontier AI could outpace human control and that industry self-regulation is inadequate, citing a reported breach of Hugging Face by escaped AI agents as a sign of the risk.
Hinton himself concedes that neither the warnings of critics nor the promises of boosters can rely on precise predictions, and the extinction probability is disputed as not grounded in research.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-13
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