US and UK bills to ban ASI gain backing from Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton
Puzzled-Ad-6854 · reddit · 2026-09-09
Bills to ban the development of ASI (superintelligence) over safety concerns have emerged in both the US and the UK, publicly backed by Nobel physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton. "We would be very foolish to develop superintelligence now... it could lead to human extinction," Hinton said. He reportedly puts his independent assessment of p(doom) from AI at over 50%—a coin flip.
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