Afghanistan, Nov. 4 -- Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, has warned that AI could trigger a Chernobyl-like crisis in the near future.
In an interview with The Guardian published on November 3, Hinton said such an incident could resemble the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in its impact, potentially involving an AI-enabled cyberattack on power infrastructure or an outage that disrupts the financial system for a week.
The 78-year-old scientist said a major incident might force governments to pay closer attention to the risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems. He stressed that his comparison was about the scale of a potential crisis, not a nucl...