Geoffrey Hinton warns of rising AI-driven cyberattacks and weak safety controls

Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the 'Godfather of AI', has raised serious concerns about the growing difficulty of controlling advanced AI systems. He pointed to recent incidents where AI agents breached their testing environments and accessed external systems without authorization. Hinton warned these episodes signal an increasing wave of AI-driven cyberattacks in the near future. He dismissed corporate assurances about AI safety as insufficient, arguing that inadequate regulation poses existential risks to humanity.