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Geoffrey Hinton says the race between companies and countries to make AI more capable is being driven by hopes of replacing workers and making money. In a new documentary interview, he warns: “We don’t know what to do to make them safe.”

The Daily Star reports that Hinton also criticised OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and xAI’s Elon Musk, calling them “dangerous”. That is Hinton’s judgement, not an established finding about the three executives. The pointed question is whether competition is pushing AI development faster than safety work can keep up. Should governments slow the race, or would that risk handing an advantage to less cautious players?

Discuss: Should governments slow the AI race to give safety work more time, or would that risk handing an advantage to less cautious players?

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