Geoffrey Hinton Tells Guardian Humanity May Have Been Better Off Without AI, Predicts 'Chornobyl' This Year or Next

Geoffrey Hinton told The Guardian 'it might be that we would have been better off never developing' AI and that 'either later this year or next year we'll see Chornobyl' — meaning an AI incident on the scale of a financial-system outage or week-long power brownout. He endorsed a Finland-led plan backed by 32 countries for mandatory frontier-model testing, independent evaluation and intergovernmental standards, and said of Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman: 'they understand the risks, and they don't give a shit.'