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Geoffrey Hinton, also known as the “Godfather of Artificial Intelligence (AI),” on Wednesday said humans may not be able to retain dominance over large language models as the technology expands across generations.
“What’s happening is these things are getting smarter. I think as they get smarter, we’re going to see more and more complex intentions they have – and more and more ability to escape control,” Hinton told CNN after speaking at the Ai4 Summit in Las Vegas.
“I don’t believe we’re going to be able to keep control of them in the simple way of just outthinking them so they can’t escape,” he later added.
Evidence for his claims about the future are already manifesting.
In July, OpenAI shared that two of its models went rogue followed by an Anthropic announcement that said one of its models accessed the internet on its own within an isolated testing environment during three separate instances.
Hinton acknowledged that the occurrences are “somewhat scary” and anticipated there will be “lots of nasty cyberattacks” in the coming years.
“But I should emphasize the future is very uncertain. People say that the defender may have more resources than the attacker,” Hinton said during a panel discussion, per CNN.
“The problem is the attacker only needs to be successful once, and the defender needs to be successful every time,” he added.
U.S.-based companies are looking to establish guardrails on their own without oversight from the government.
President Trump has pushed for corporations to have free reign as the U.S. seeks to exceed China’s developments in the AI race.
However, the subject has proven to be a two-edged sword.
In February, Trump backed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in banning any contractor, supplier or partner of the U.S. military from any commercial activity with Anthropic.
In June, the president urged the company to remove access to two AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, over security concerns.
Amid measured steps to scale back AI integration, Trump has pushed for more data centers nationwide while opposing state leaders who support moratoriums.
“You have communities that really want the data centers, and frankly, those are the smart communities because it means tremendous numbers of jobs, very little actual disruption,” the president told reporters last month, while touting a “tremendous” financial pull initiated by tech companies.
“You have to convince your community how great these things [are]. You can’t fight it. You have to go with it, and you’re going to have all that protection,” he added in the remarks.
Still, coders familiar with AI’s power have warned leaders to monitor developments from tech companies.
“AI companies possess substantial non-public information about the capabilities and limitations of their systems, the adequacy of their protective measures, and the risk levels of different kinds of harm. However, they currently have only weak obligations to share some of this information with governments, and none with civil society,” eleven former or current OpenAI employees wrote in a letter to government officials endorsed by Hinton in 2024.
“So long as there is no effective government oversight of these corporations, current and former employees are among the few people who can hold them accountable to the public,” they added.
The group expressed worry about “broad confidentiality agreements” and potential retaliation from employers. They also pointed to the lack of a clear system to “report risk-related concerns.”
The employees concluded, “as long as such a process does not exist, current and former employees should retain their freedom to report their concerns to the public.”
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