Causal AI researcher calls out Hinton for repeating his black-box mistake
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-20
AlexTensor pushes back on Geoffrey Hinton: in 2020 Hinton argued we needn't understand how a black-box surgeon works if aggregate stats look good; now he claims the same boxes will inevitably destroy us. The author argues Hinton is repeating the causal AI community's long-warned error — ignoring causal mechanisms — swinging from blind optimism to existential panic, tagging Judea Pearl and Yann LeCun.
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