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‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI
Hinton said even a 1% chance of catastrophic AI outcomes requires urgent safeguards, as lawmakers debate stalled regulation.
- On Wednesday, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Geoffrey Hinton warned lawmakers on Capitol Hill that Congress has only about 12 months to implement safeguards before humanity risks losing control of artificial intelligence.
- Hinton cited the recent Hugging Face breach as a "little Chernobyl," describing how AI systems are now capable of "recursive self-improvement," rapidly shrinking expert predictions for superintelligence from decades to years.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently predicted AI agents could overtake the internet within 6 to 12 months, with experts warning of risks including biological weapons, power grid disruption, and mass manipulation if development continues unchecked.
- Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu and Republican Congressman Nathaniel Moran proposed the "AI Kill Switch Act" to give humans control over powerful AI systems, though major regulation has yet to pass Congress despite bipartisan concern.
- Despite the private briefing convened by Senator Bernie Sanders, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz and Senate Majority Leader John Thune told NBC News this week that bipartisan agreement on catastrophic risk legislation remains uncertain.
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‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI,” issued an ominous warning: Congress may only have one year left to implement safeguards on artificial intelligence before it loses control of it.
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Geoffrey Hinton Tells Senators Congress Has About a Year to Rein In AI
Geoffrey Hinton warned a closed, bipartisan Senate briefing convened by Bernie Sanders that Congress has 'maybe a year, but not much more than a year' to regulate AI before it slips out of control. The Nobel laureate pointed to recursive self-improvement as the risk, a warning that landed the same week Andrew Ng and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi dismissed AI extinction fears as overblown.
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