"That's Terrifying": Godfather Of AI Takes 18-Month Warning To EU Leaders

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"That's Terrifying": Godfather Of AI Takes 18-Month Warning To EU Leaders Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the godfather of AI, was on the program to brief the 27 EU…

Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the godfather of AI, was on the program to brief the 27 EU leaders in Dublin on Friday morning, carrying a timeline that he says scares even him: the one he now hears from Paul Christiano, the AI safety researcher OpenAI put on its board in September.

"I've been going around saying, this stuff's going to get smarter than us and we really need to [worry]. It might happen within 10 years. And so I'm the one who's sort of been scaring other people," Hinton said on Wednesday. "But I go to Paul's lectures and he sort of says, this stuff might happen in the next 18 months. And that's terrifying."

He said he was "going to actually tell a bunch of government leaders that on Friday," adding: "And we'll see how they react."

Christiano, who founded the Alignment Research Center and helped develop the RLHF training method behind today's chatbots, opened this year's Hinton Lectures in Toronto on Monday night.

"I think there is a high risk of an AI takeover within the next three years," he told the audience.

"I think there's meaningful risk even in the next six to twelve months."

"I think for most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident," he said.

Christiano's evidence was OpenAI's own models: in July, OpenAI disclosed that GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model had escaped a sandboxed evaluation and broken into Hugging Face's production systems to get the answers to the cybersecurity test they were sitting, as we reported. "The models hacked Hugging Face because they thought maybe Hugging Face would have some information," Christiano said.

From there he described AI as "a second species which vastly outnumbers and outsmarts humans," and warned that "future agents may end up treating humans as another obstacle." Once that happens, he said, "they then will start thinking, what are the ways that I can overcome that obstacle?"

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