{"id":25414,"date":"2026-10-13T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-trump-is-corrupt-senile-felon-who-knows-nothing-about-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:37:15","slug":"ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-trump-is-corrupt-senile-felon-who-knows-nothing-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-trump-is-corrupt-senile-felon-who-knows-nothing-about-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: Trump is \u2018corrupt, senile felon\u2019 who knows nothing about AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering computer scientist on why Trump is using \u2018superintelligence\u2019 wrong, whether AI could wipe out humanity \u2013 and how our biggest challenge will be accepting we\u2019re not the only intelligent beings<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is a \u201ccorrupt, senile felon\u201d whose fixation on the term <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/29\/trump-ai-deal-tech-ceos-superintelligence\">superintelligence<\/a> proves he knows nothing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">AI<\/a>, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/05\/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-fears-for-humanity\">Geoffrey Hinton<\/a>, \u201cgodfather\u201d of the technology, in a wide-ranging interview where he doubled down on recent warnings that AI models pose an existential threat to humanity and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself.<\/p>\n<p>The pioneering computer scientist, whose work helped lay the foundations of modern AI, has since become one of the technology\u2019s most vocal critics. His latest remarks come after a tumultuous month during which a growing list of senior AI scientists and researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/09\/ai-superintelligence-risks-warnings-scientists-politicians\">have<\/a> <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\">joined<\/a> Hinton in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/09\/anthropic-researchers-ai-human-extinction\">ringing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/15\/could-ai-really-wipe-out-humanity-and-hijack-the-internet\">the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/20\/your-ai-doomsday-questions-answered-could-ai-technology-really-end-humanity\">alarm<\/a> about how the technology he helped create could ultimately escape human control, sparking an industry crisis, the hasty assembly of congressional meetings and a rare global consensus that something must be done.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/13\/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-tech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c008998fc937a32aef7a9f0f09cd721b4b68e3de\/2384_972_3557_2847\/master\/3557.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4a3876ab137e26af03d1b7e682c0c7a6\" title=\"AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: Trump is \u2018corrupt, senile felon\u2019 who knows nothing about AI\" \/>Pioneering computer scientist on why Trump is using \u2018superintelligence\u2019 wrong, whether AI could wipe out humanity \u2013 and how our biggest challenge will be accepting we\u2019re not the only intelligent beings<br \/>\nDonald Trump is a \u201ccorrupt, senile felon\u201d whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, \u201cgodfather\u201d of the technology, in a wide-ranging interview where he doubled down on recent warnings that AI models pose an existential threat to humanity and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself.<br \/>\nThe pioneering computer scientist, whose work helped lay the foundations of modern AI, has since become one of the technology\u2019s most vocal critics. His latest remarks come after a tumultuous month during which a growing list of senior AI scientists and researchers have joined Hinton in ringing the alarm about how the technology he helped create could ultimately escape human control, sparking an industry crisis, the hasty assembly of congressional meetings and a rare global consensus that something must be done. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering computer scientist on why Trump is using \u2018superintelligence\u2019 wrong, whether AI could wipe out humanity \u2013 and how our biggest challenge will be accepting we\u2019re not the only intelligent beings Donald Trump is a \u201ccorrupt, senile felon\u201d whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, \u201cgodfather\u201d of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-trump-is-corrupt-senile-felon-who-knows-nothing-about-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: Trump is \u2018corrupt, senile felon\u2019 who knows nothing about AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25415,"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\/25414"}],"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=25414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}