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Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI: ‘I’m not a doomer. I think there’s a 1% chance it will destroy us’

21 October 2026 at 20:07

Years ago, when people asked Geoffrey Hinton why he worked on artificial intelligence, he would repeat a line from J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the creators of the atomic bomb: “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it.”

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Computer scientist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton during the Starmus Festival 2026, held this Tuesday in the municipality of Arona in Tenerife.

Geoffrey Hinton, el padrino de la IA: “No soy catastrofista. Creo que hay un 1% de posibilidades de que nos destruya”

21 October 2026 at 04:30

Hace años, cuando la gente preguntaba a Geoffrey Hinton por qué trabajaba con la inteligencia artificial, él repetía una frase de Oppenheimer, uno de los creadores de la bomba atómica: “Cuando ves algo grandioso, sigues adelante y lo llevas a cabo”. Ya no lo dice. Ahora se dedica a alertar sobre los peligros de continuar la carrera que él mismo empezó. Confiesa que, en parte, se arrepiente del trabajo al que ha dedicado una vida. Su reconversión de padrino de la IA a profeta de la catástrofe marcó un punto de inflexión en la industria. Sucedió en 2023, cuando abandonó su puesto como vicepresidente de Google entre advertencias funestas. Entonces, algunos vieron su reacción exagerada. Tres años después, muchos han seguido sus pasos.

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El científico computacional y Premio Nobel de Física Geoffrey Hinton durante el Festival Starmus 2026 que se celebra este martes en el municipio de Arona en Tenerife.

Democrat Mega-Donor Eric Schmidt's Anthropic Stake Could Add $10 Billion to His Fortune

20 October 2026 at 18:40

Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive and Democrat mega-donor, holds a one percent stake in Anthropic that traces back to an early investment of millions in the AI startup. This stake could add up to $10 billion to Schmidt's net worth when the company notable for its AI doomer messages goes public.

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OpenAI: AI-Generated Deepfakes Will Become Impossible to Verify

17 October 2026 at 20:04

Federal judges meeting in Boston heard tech industry warnings that AI-generated images and video are becoming nearly impossible to verify, as a judiciary committee considers whether courts need new rules for evidence that may be deepfakes instead of the real thing.

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The AI labor apocalypse is on hold (for now)

11 October 2026 at 05:00

There are three versions of Saint John’s Book of the Apocalypse, a text that never loses relevance and now seems to presage the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI).

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A protest against AI outside the OpenAI DevDay 2026 conference in San Francisco on September 29.

Eric Sadin: ‘AI reeks of death’

1 October 2026 at 20:57

Éric Sadin gets up and paces around the living room of his Paris apartment when an argument excites him. His own voice urges him to do so. He has developed a critical body of thought, brimming with striking headlines and elegant analyses of the future, riding the philosophical and social thinking of the last century to arrive at a scathing conclusion across some 10 books: we have become idiots, and we are on our way to becoming even bigger idiots.

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Éric Sadin, photographed at his home in Paris on March 26.

AI’s apparent danger is its best selling point

1 October 2026 at 09:56

Just weeks before its scheduled November IPO, Anthropic is facing growing attention over the potential dangers of its technology. The resignation of former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon on September 8, who wrote on X that AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade,” preceded the company’s threat report on September 10. According […]

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