When the Godfather of AI Warns the World, We Should Listen

Описание: MOMENTS OF VULNERABILITY

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THE FINAL WARNING

Two Critical Takeaways:

Radical Uncertainty: "The future is incredibly uncertain. We're dealing with intelligent beings that are weird—very like us in some ways, very unlike us in others. We still have control. We're still making them. Anyone who tells you they're sure what will happen is guessing."

Political Transformation Required: "We desperately need to change the political system because what we have now can't manage this. Tech companies assume they can replace jobs and workers are not their problem. We need a government concerned with everybody, not just manipulated by fewer billionaires."

Plus: Why China might manage AI's worker impact better than big tech companies (this got huge applause)


🚀 WHY THIS MATTERS NOW
The conversation last night reminded us: we're living through a hinge moment in history. The choices we make now—about regulation, taxation, who controls these technologies and to what end—will shape whether AI amplifies humanity's best qualities or its worst.

And we're making those choices while some of our most powerful tech leaders explicitly reject empathy as an asset.

That should terrify us. But it should also galvanise us to demand better.

This is why our optimism at Auto Agentic is paired with action:

We're volunteering with the Artificial Intelligence Safety Foundation that Hinton founded
We're building intelligence architecture, not just AI features
We're working with automotive organisations to create playbooks that preserve human agency
We're committed to systems that amplify capability rather than replace it
Hoping for a better future isn't enough. We need to build it with sleeves rolled up.

📚 RESOURCES & LINKS
Organizations:

Auto Agentic: autoagentic.ai
Artificial Intelligence Safety Foundation (founded by Geoffrey Hinton)
Vector Institute: vectorinstitute.ai
CIFAR: cifar.ca
Royal Canadian Institute for Science: royalcanadianinstitute.org
Contact:

Email Barry Hillier: [email protected]
Topic ideas and industry stories welcome
Related Content:

Full written article available at autoagentic.ai/blog
Geoffrey Hinton's Nobel Prize lecture
Amber Mac Show: ambermac.com