{"id":25152,"date":"2026-09-28T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/ai-godfathers-warn-of-runaway-intelligence-explosion\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:37:19","slug":"ai-godfathers-warn-of-runaway-intelligence-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/ai-godfathers-warn-of-runaway-intelligence-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"AI godfathers warn of runaway \u2018intelligence explosion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of \u2018most consequential technological development in history\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Two of the \u201cgodfathers\u201d of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI \u201cintelligence explosion\u201d, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history.<\/p>\n<p>A report co-authored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/27\/godfather-of-ai-raises-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years\">Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/16\/ai-tech-regulation-government-action-yoshua-bengio\">Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio<\/a>, considered godfathers of modern AI for their work in the field, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/16\/building-frankenstein-jd-vance-dismisses-ai-regulation\">urges politicians to act now<\/a> before there is runaway progress in the technology.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/28\/ai-godfathers-warn-of-runaway-intelligence-explosion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aec7cba8735b2ae3c20055f3561db31f83275566\/0_0_4714_3771\/master\/4714.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5ff5b31e1cac0ac6371f9e5bd6ffdb46\" title=\"AI godfathers warn of runaway \u2018intelligence explosion\u2019\" \/>OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of \u2018most consequential technological development in history\u2019<br \/>\nTwo of the \u201cgodfathers\u201d of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI \u201cintelligence explosion\u201d, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history.<br \/>\nA report co-authored by the Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and the Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, considered godfathers of modern AI for their work in the field, urges politicians to act now before there is runaway progress in the technology. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of \u2018most consequential technological development in history\u2019 Two of the \u201cgodfathers\u201d of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI \u201cintelligence explosion\u201d, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history. A report &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/ai-godfathers-warn-of-runaway-intelligence-explosion\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI godfathers warn of runaway \u2018intelligence explosion\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25153,"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\/25152"}],"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=25152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}