Geoffrey Hinton: We Might Have Been Better Off Never Building AI

Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, one of AI's founding figures, warns the technology could trigger a major incident this year or next — a financial or power system blackout — and says it may turn out humanity would have been better off never developing it. He doesn't trust Sam Altman, accuses Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman of understanding the risks but chasing money anyway, and calls for FDA-style mandatory testing of frontier models.