AI's "Little Chernobyl"? Nobel winner warns of unregulated AI risks.
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Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton called this summer's AI-driven hacking attack on the company Hugging Face "a little Chernobyl." How close we are to a real disaster can be debated. But without regulation of AI companies, the risks are growing, says historian and AI critic Jill Lepore. Martin Jönsson has read her new book.