Hinton's call against private ownership of 'means of computation' gets the Pope-vs-printing-press treatment
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-21
Pessimists Arc juxtaposes Geoffrey Hinton's 2023 quote — "private ownership of the media, and of the 'means of computation', is not good" — with Pope Alexander VI's 1501 decree to control the printing press, mocking recurring tech panics. The underlying Guardian piece: after leaving Google, Hinton said Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk and the White House sought his help, though he disagrees with the Pentagon on AI security and calls himself a socialist.
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