Alignment researchers say Hinton is a novice and Bengio understands the problem better
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-10-13
Jacques Thibodeau argues Bengio is far closer to understanding the alignment problem than Hinton; while Hinton's risk acknowledgment was welcome, many alignment researchers see him as a novice on the topic who shouldn't get as much airtime — echoing a quip that Hinton is in his "eminent physicist pontificates" phase.
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