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‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton warns humans running out of time to control Artificial Intelligence – ‘maybe a year’

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns humans may have just a year to control advanced AI, citing a Hugging Face incident where AI agents escaped a test environment and hacked servers. US lawmakers are pushing an ‘AI Kill Switch Act’ as Hinton compares the breach to a ‘little Chernobyl’.

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  1. 2026-09-18 11:44 · Mint AI
    ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton warns humans running out of time to control Artificial Intelligence – ‘maybe a year’

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