Hinton Hits Back at Ng: I Left Google to Speak Freely About Extinction Risk
EvanHub · x · 2026-09-20
Responding to Andrew Ng's claim that AI extinction fears are a big-tech conspiracy, Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton says the theory doesn't fit one datapoint: he left Google precisely so he could speak openly about existential risk. Nathan Calvin adds this is strong evidence against the 'x-risk as regulatory capture psy-op' narrative.
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