Hinton calls Trump a “corrupt, senile felon” over AI stance
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In a Guardian interview, Hinton said Trump's fixation on the word "superintelligence" shows he knows nothing about AI, doubled down on his existential-risk warnings, and rejected claims the AI industry can regulate itself.
“We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans.”
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton AI pioneer, Turing Award winner
Jensen Huang Nvidia CEO
Donald Trump US PresidentHugging Face AI platform company
Ezra Klein Podcaster who interviewed Jensen Huang
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first by The Guardian, 19h ago · also Guardian Tech
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This is where we need to be very careful about what we're talking about. Geoffrey Hinton is talking about AI like what the words actually mean, not the moronic "superintelligence" or confusing AI with LLMs. He brings up some very interesting questions, like how do we treat rights if AGI is ever achieved. He's not conflating AGI with whatever it is…
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that works so long as you keep in mind the AI itself might be it's own concentration of power without any human involved. LLMs can have their own goals and act as a collective, something like the hugging face incident could lead to a concentration of power that has no humans in it.
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“I love [him]. I hate his predictions … All of his predictions have been wrong. Enough predictions,” Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, told the podcaster Ezra Klein. Huang, whose company makes the chips that AI firms require, dismissed Hinton’s vocal concerns that the pace and breadth of AI development at the “frontier” could outpace the human ability…
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Math doesn’t have feelings. AI is simply an algorithm that takes input and spits out output. People need to stop anthropomorphizing it because it’s going to make it harder to pull the plug if need because now we will have to debate about killing it.
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Donald Trump is a “corrupt, senile felon” whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton... https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/o ct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-tech # AI # AISucks # Politics # FightFascism
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The Guardian | AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: Trump is ‘corrupt, senile felon’ who knows nothing about AI https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/o ct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-tech # WNN7 # BreakingNews # WorldNewsNuggets
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https://www. europesays.com/3307437/ AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’ | Donald Trump # DonaldTrump # trump
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