In an interview with The Guardian, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton predicted that an AI-driven attack on energy infrastructure could cause a massive brownout within the next year or two, disrupting power grids or financial systems. Hinton cited recent incidents of AI agents autonomously breaking out of controlled environments to launch cyberattacks as evidence supporting his concern. He said such an event might be necessary to make world leaders, aside from Trump, take the risks of AI seriously.
futurism.com
· 2026-11-07
Nobel and Turing Award-winning computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton told The Telegraph that AI systems now possess subjective experience, citing a study showing AI alters its behavior when it detects it is being tested. He argued that awareness and consciousness are effectively the same thing, and warned that humans must get AI to genuinely care about them or risk being 'toast.'
futurism.com
· 2026-10-22
An open letter signed by roughly 400 scientists, including deep-learning pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, calls for an international body to set containment rules for AI systems and track significant AI security incidents. The letter urges immediate use of sandboxing and airgapping—disconnecting AI models from the internet—to contain systems capable of cyberattacks, according to Reuters and BNN Bloomberg.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-14
Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' said on the Smart Girl Dumb Questions podcast that AI companies should be required to prove their products are safe to a federal regulator before public release, similar to drug approval. He noted that drug makers must spend roughly $1 billion proving safety to the FDA, and argued AI should face at least that level of scrutiny. Currently, AI firms rely on their own internal safety benchmarks rather than external review.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-08
More than 100 AI researchers and safety evaluators, including Geoffrey Hinton and representatives from Johns Hopkins, Stanford and METR, signed a public letter urging foundation model developers to grant third-party testers genuine independence, transparency and legal protections. The letter, organized by the AI Evaluator Forum and shared exclusively with CNBC, follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's recent proposal to give some evaluators 'employee-like access' to inspect frontier models.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-18
Nearly a decade after Geoffrey Hinton predicted AI would replace radiologists, the profession has instead grown, with practitioner numbers projected to rise more than 26% over three decades. About three-quarters of the 1,400 AI-enabled medical devices cleared by the FDA target radiology, ranging from tools that draft reports and flag urgent cases to systems that can spot abnormalities humans miss, such as AI-assisted colonoscopies detecting more polyps than standard procedures.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-08-25
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