Geoffrey Hinton: Congress has about a year to regulate AI

Geoffrey Hinton warned lawmakers they may have less than a year to put AI safeguards in place and that timelines for superintelligence have shortened. Speaking in a closed briefing invited by Sen. Bernie Sanders, he cited researchers' faster predictions and referenced the OpenAI agent incident at Hugging Face as a serious wake-up.

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