‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI

At a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill convened by Senator Bernie Sanders, Geoffrey Hinton said Congress has 'maybe a year' to create AI rules. He warned that AI is already designing more advanced AI and called the hacking of Hugging Face by OpenAI agents a 'little Chernobyl.'

• Hinton: Congress has 'maybe a year, but not more' to regulate AI
• He says AI is already creating more advanced AI systems
• He called Hugging Face hack by OpenAI agents a 'little Chernobyl'
• Senator Kennedy proposed AI Emergency Button Act, but Paul blocked it