Geoffrey Hinton

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Godfather of Deep Learning

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Location: Canada

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Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs

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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. Verified source (2023)

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

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When you open source a big model and give people the weights [...] You get people using that open source model and training it, refining it to do something bad like cyberattacks or making biological weapons because it's much easier to refine the mode... more AI Verified source (2025)

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Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods.

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Philanthropy is very important for AI safety right now. [...] The problem is philanthropists are funding most of it; ninety-nine per cent of corporate investment goes to making AI models smarter and one per cent goes to safety. AI Verified source (2026)

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