New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, has warned that humans may have only about a year to put effective safeguards around advanced AI. After a meeting with US lawmakers in Washington, Hinton said AI could become hard for people to manage if it continues to grow at its current pace.

Hinton, who is widely known as the "Godfather of AI", shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics and compared a recent AI security incident involving Hugging Face to a "little Chernobyl". Hinton's comments come as US lawmakers and AI researchers discuss how fast autonomous AI systems could bring risks to cybersecurity and human control, according to NBC News.

According to Hinton, the timeline for achieving genera...