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‘Godfather’ of AI reacts to AI CEOs’ UN warnings
Hinton answers CNN after Altman and Amodei take the UN warning to the floor. A warning is useful only if Congress can act on it.
When the godfather of AI tells CNN that the race is the risk—and the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic tell the UN the same week—that is not a reason to surrender the frontier. It is a reason to treat loss of human control as a governing problem.
International standards that only America honors are a gift to every rival that will not pause. Blind acceleration is not leadership either. Panic is not a policy. Neither is “regulate nothing.”
American AI Safeguards will keep the debate on evaluation, cybersecurity, and meaningful human accountability—so that warning is not wasted on theater.