AI pioneer. Mr Hinton argues there is a 10-20% chance that artificial intelligence will end in human extinction. A former colleague, Yoshua Bengio, puts the risk at the high end of that range. He signed an open letter in 2023, alongside hundreds of people working in AI, warning of the technology's perils.
When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.