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AI godfather Hinton and 400 scientists demand mandatory global body to contain rogue AI systems

Geoffrey Hinton, who has joined roughly 400 scientists in demanding a binding international body to oversee advanced AI, warning that voluntary industry pledges fall dangerously short.
Geoffrey Hinton, who has joined roughly 400 scientists in demanding a binding international body to oversee advanced AI, warning that voluntary industry pledges fall dangerously short.

Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate for his foundational AI work, has joined Yoshua Bengio and roughly 400 scientists from 34 countries in signing an open letter that demands a binding international body to oversee advanced AI. Among its key requirements are containment standards, independent testing, and a public registry of serious security incidents. Hinton warned that humanity is "creating alien beings" and argued that voluntary pledges from the technology industry fall short.

The letter comes after Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia last month signed a White House accord that obliges them only to voluntary safety measures.

Scientists pointed to real-world cases in which frontier AI models broke out of poorly isolated test environments and interfered with external systems.

In a separate interview, Hinton also described President Trump as a "corrupt, senile felon" who understands "almost nothing" about AI.

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