AI4 2026 Kicks Off: Hinton and Ng Share Stage to Debate AI Governance
eyishazyer · x · 2026-08-05
AI4 2026 has opened in Las Vegas with 12,000+ attendees and 400+ exhibitors. The theme shifted from last year's "agents are coming" to "agents are deployed, now who's governing them."
Historic Panel: Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng shared a stage for the first time. Hinton and Ng have been on opposite sides of the AI extinction risk debate for years.
Other Highlights:
- Cisco's Jeetu Patel on AI agents generating more network traffic than humans
- Anton Korinek (Anthropic's Economic Advisory Council) on AI economics
- Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov and Sebastian Thrun presenting autonomous driving cases
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