Hinton Calls Trump a Felon, Warns 10%-20% AI Extinction Risk

1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 13

Geoffrey Hinton said Donald Trump’s push to relabel AI as “superintelligence” shows he understands “almost nothing” about the technology, and called the president a “corrupt, senile felon.”
A 10%-20% chance of human extinction from AI remains Hinton’s benchmark for a serious risk, which he said justifies regulation rather than letting companies police themselves.
Jensen Huang last week attacked those warnings as unscientific and harmful, but Hinton argued uncertainty is exactly why society cannot afford complacency if advanced systems escape human control.
Hinton tied the debate to recent AI-agent safety breaches and said the industry is creating “alien beings” faster than society can adapt, with only a couple of years to adjust.