Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel prize-winning AI pioneer, told the Guardian that AI could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems, and said "it might be that we would have been better off never developing it." He said he does not trust OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman "at all" and claimed Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman understand the risks but "don't give a shit" and "would rather have the money." Hinton backs mandatory testing of frontier AI models overseen by an independent authority, comparing it to the US FDA's drug approval process.