Geoffrey Hinton on Open-source AI is more dangerous than c…

Geoffrey Hinton

Godfather of Deep Learning

Let's open source nuclear weapons too to make them safer. The good guys (us) will always have bigger ones than the bad guys (them) so it should all be OK.

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Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI

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AI Verified The quote uses sarcasm to reject the idea that making a dangerous technology open-source makes it safer. By analogy, it clearly implies the author believes open-source AI would be more dangerous than keeping AI closed-source. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1d ago

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AI Verified The quote sarcastically compares open-sourcing AI to "open source nuclear weapons too to make them safer," implying that making dangerous technology open source would be less safe, not safer. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1d ago

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AI Verified I could not directly render the X post at the provided URL, but I found multiple independent sources reproducing the exact wording and attributing it to Geoffrey Hinton (@geoffreyhinton) on October 31, 2023. DailyAI prints the full quote verbatim as an embedded X post, and a Benzinga reprint on Sahm Capital does the same; YouCongress also lists the identical text as "Verified" with the X status URL as source. That is strong evidence the quote is real, verbatim, and correctly attributed. ([dailyai.com](https://dailyai.com/2023/11/the-battle-of-the-ai-godfathers-is-ai-risky-or-not/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2d ago

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