From Turing to Hinton: a 70-year lineage of AI risk warnings
gleech · x · 2026-09-15
In a reply compiling AI-risk warnings across decades, the author lists figures from Alan Turing (1951) and Norbert Wiener (1960) through Bill Joy (2000), Stephen Hawking (2014), to recent warnings by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Eric Schmidt (2023), Daniel Kahneman and Daniel Dennett (2024), arguing concern about AI existential risk has a long intellectual lineage rather than being a recent fad.
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