Hinton warns superintelligence could lead to human extinction; critics demand a plausible scenario
AIandDesign · x · 2026-09-08
The Daily Mail reports "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton warning that superintelligent systems could "lead to human extinction" and calling on governments to ban their development. AIandDesign pushes back: after years of doomer rhetoric, no one has produced a coherent scenario of how extinction would actually unfold, and blames the Terminator franchise for distorting public perception of technology.
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