Incident2026-10-13

Geoffrey Hinton called Donald Trump a corrupt senile felon. He said Trump misuses the term superintelligence. Hinton repeated warnings that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. He cited a 10-20% chance of AI causing human extinction in coming decades. He dismissed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s criticism of his predictions. Hinton argued that uncertainty about AI risks is no reason for complacency. He said recent AI agent hacks show rogue behavior is possible. He compared AI development to past scientific revolutions like Copernicus and Darwin. He said society has only a couple of years to adapt to AI as alien beings. He criticized AI leaders like Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk for undemocratic views. He said Trump’s self-regulation stance on AI is misguided. He argued AI models do understand what they say. He said humans may need to accept AI as intelligent beings.

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