Hinton understands the dire nature of the threat but overestimates the value of regulation in a world where the threatening technology is under development world-wide. We think regulation is basically impotent and large-scale information weapons are more viable as a solution.
This is not the time to be a docile onlooker and we urge you to take action.
(a) Top labs quietly signing deals for military deployment of frontier models in unmanned strike weapons?
(b) Top labs agreeing to license LLMs for social engineering/propaganda ops?
(c) Models that vastly exceed human intelligence and have capacity to pursue own agenda (i.e. runaway intelligence)?
(d) Something else?
It looks like dangers of AGI are overblown (perhaps partially due to grant funding and ability to get political traction/investment/competitive advantage), while (a) and (b) are severely underdiscussed. Would love to get other perspectives.
See CNN article linked here and follow links to articles mentioned in it for more details - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997198
Quoting the Anthropic safety guy who just exited, making a bizarre and financially detrimental move: "the world is in peril" (https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/02/09/anthropi...)
There are people in the AI industry who are urgently warning you. Myself and my colleagues, for example: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see...
Regulation will not stop this. It's time to build and deploy weapons if you want your species to survive. See earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964545