Geoffrey Hinton warns US has one year to regulate AI before it spirals out of control

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Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI," warned US lawmakers they have about one year to regulate advanced AI before it becomes "out of control," citing AI systems now designing better versions of themselves. Speaking after a Congressional briefing on Wednesday, Hinton said superintelligent AI could emerge within a few years, not decades, and referenced a recent Hugging Face incident as "a little Chernobyl" highlighting control risks. His warning follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay urging the industry to "pace the frontier," backed by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Elon Musk, clashing with the Trump administration's push to maintain US AI leadership.


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