{"id":22013,"date":"2026-02-18T08:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/race-for-ai-is-making-hindenburg-style-disaster-a-real-risk-says-leading-expert\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:37:21","slug":"race-for-ai-is-making-hindenburg-style-disaster-a-real-risk-says-leading-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/race-for-ai-is-making-hindenburg-style-disaster-a-real-risk-says-leading-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster \u2018a real risk\u2019, says leading expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest<\/p>\n<p>The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the danger arose from the immense commercial pressures that technology firms were under to release new AI tools, with companies desperate to win customers before the products\u2019 capabilities and potential flaws are fully understood.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/feb\/17\/ai-race-hindenburg-style-disaster-a-real-risk-michael-wooldridge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ece0f11b49a602a64f2f6c233331b06d7d3a4b00\/189_0_2810_2249\/master\/2810.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f1901c4d9ebaa232775820a991bbd694\" title=\"Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster \u2018a real risk\u2019, says leading expert\" \/>Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest<br \/>\nThe race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned.<br \/>\nMichael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the danger arose from the immense commercial pressures that technology firms were under to release new AI tools, with companies desperate to win customers before the products\u2019 capabilities and potential flaws are fully understood. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned. Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/race-for-ai-is-making-hindenburg-style-disaster-a-real-risk-says-leading-expert\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster \u2018a real risk\u2019, says leading expert<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}