Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI: ‘I’m not a doomer. I think there’s a 1% chance it will destroy us’

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1. Wed, 21 October 2026

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   • El Pais English19:07first to report
     Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI: ‘I’m not a doomer. I think there’s a 1% chance it will destroy us’

     The winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics warns of Silicon Valley’s fascist drift and says that if Trump wins the midterm elections, it will be the end of American democracy

2. Tue, 3 November 2026

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   • The Guardian World21:35
     AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

     Nobel winner warns the tech could be near to triggering major incident such as power or banking shutdown One 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...

3. Wed, 4 November 2026

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   • Index.hr (Croatia)01:01
     "Kum" umjetne inteligencije: Možda bi nam bilo bolje da je nikad nismo razvili

     GEOFFREY Hinton, jedan od pionira umjetne inteligencije, poznat i kao jedan od njezinih "kumova", te dobitnik Nobelove nagrade za fiziku, upozorio je da bi čovječanstvo već ove ili sljedeće godine moglo doživjeti ozbiljnu krizu izazvanu umjetnom inteligencijom.