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(55,073 posts) Wed May 27, 2026, 11:50 PM Wednesday

Geoffrey Hinton, who is known as the godfather of AI, used his 2024 Nobel Prize acceptance speech not to celebrate his

creation but to warn humanity of its risks:

“AI is already being used by authoritarian governments for mass surveillance. In the near future, AI will be used to create new viruses and lethal weapons that decide by themselves who to kill or maim.

There is also a long-term existential threat that will arise…We now have evidence that AI created by companies motivated by short-term profits will not prioritize the safety of humanity. We need research on how to prevent these AI beings from taking control. They are no longer science fiction.”

When the pioneer of AI is warning humanity about the existential dangers of his own creation it’s time not just to listen, but to take action by stopping the one thing the billionaires need to power the dystopian AI world they’re trying to create: Data Centers.

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Geoffrey Hinton, who is known as the godfather of AI, used his 2024 Nobel Prize acceptance speech not to celebrate his (Original Post) Celerity Wednesday OP

Inventions are like children -- you can bring them into the world, but you can't control their ultimate fate. eppur_se_muova Wednesday #1

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1. Inventions are like children -- you can bring them into the world, but you can't control their ultimate fate.

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Wed May 27, 2026, 11:59 PM

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You don't really even have the option of trying to raise them right. As long as they're based on universal scientific principles, anyone with the necessary know-how and technology can create their own versions.

And it's no good smothering them in the crib -- someone else will eventually make the same discoveries, or insights, that lead down the same road. As the world learned after the US and allies created the atomic bomb, and found it reproduced (USSR, China) and extended (hydrogen bomb).

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