AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
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November 3, 2026 · 13:35
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Nobel winner warns the tech could be near to triggering major incident such as power or banking shutdownOne of the “godfathers of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems.The Nobel prize-winning computer scientist told the Guardian he is not a “doomer” about the technology that is underpinned by his groundbreaking research into artificial neural networks and believes AI has the potential to lead to a “wonderful future” but he said “it might be that we would have been better off never developing it”. Continue reading...
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