aceAI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI “intelligence explosion”, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history. A report co-authored by the Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and the Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, considered godfathers of modern AI for their work in the field, urges politicians to act now before there is runaway progress in the technology. The authors say they ar…
A report by leading AI researchers warns that automating AI research could compress years of progress into months, threatening human control and weakening checks on power, so governments need to prepare.
The authors acknowledge that the impacts are uncertain: breakthroughs could take time to implement because of supply chains and regulation, and AI could also speed up risk mitigation. The 2028 automation date is a projection.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-09-28
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