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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Donald Trump is a "corrupt, senile felon" whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, "godfather" of the technology, in a wide-ranging interview where he doubled down on recent warnings that AI models pose an existential threat to humanity and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself.

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Today, his concerns extend to the powerful figures building some of the AI models, and the political beliefs of those men. Hinton said that the AI venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, and the CEO of the newly rebranded SpaceXSI, Elon Musk, "don't believe in democracy". They see themselves as ""bermenschen" who believe they should "control society" and that Trump is a useful instrument in that aim, he said.

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"AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans'

"I'm sure the oil and asbestos companies would have liked to [regulate themselves] as well," he said.

"Do we think tobacco companies should have been allowed to design the warnings on the packets? So that they could print them in a six-point font, in dark grey on black?"

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He notes that if there was even a 10 or 20 percent chance that the bus you were getting on would crash, most people would not get on that bus.

But hey, there will always be bus companies that use shoddy, dangerous buses if it makes a buck.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-14 10:01 AM | Reply

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#2 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-14 10:56 AM | Reply

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