It is telling that the most significant, scathing critiques of and warnings about the consequences of this technology come from the “Godfather of AI”, Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton. He has tirelessly and concertedly campaigned for the redistribution of wealth and tighter regulations to offset the palpable pernicious consequences for AI (Hern, 2023; Hinton, 2025; Sanders and Hinton, 2025). Hao, Karen (2016) “Empire of AI”: How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World” Democracy Now, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6JuimHoEAHern, A. (2023) “Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk and White House seeking my help, ‘godfather of AI’, The Guardian 4 May 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/04/bernie-sanders-elon-musk-and-white-house-seeking-my-help-says-godfather-of-aiHinton, G. (2025) “The Godfather of AI: “Socialism” https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R-b8RR60aHsKotkin, Joel. Sanders, Bernie and Geoffrey Hinton (2025) “AI: The Promise and the Peril”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edTTeY1Zx-0Sample, Ian (2019) “Scientists call for global moratorium on gene editing of embryos”, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/13/scientists-call-for-global-moratorium-on-crispr-gene-editing Accessed 3 January 2026.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2026 06:32 UTC