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AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried

Geoffrey Hinton is an AI pioneer, a Nobel Prize winner, and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Hinton joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss AI’s rapid progress, why he believes today’s systems already understand us, and why he thinks superintelligence may arrive sooner than many expect. Tune in to hear Hinton explain why the technology has advanced faster than he anticipated, and lay out the risks he believes society is not doing enough to address. We also cover AI-driven job loss, the limits of corporate self-regulation, Anthropic and OpenAI’s safety challenges, emotional attachment to chatbots, information collapse, and whether future AI systems can be designed to care about humans. Hit play for a fascinating conversation with one of AI’s founding figures about where the technology is heading and what it could mean for all of us.

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Chapters:

0:00: Intro.
1:34: Hinton’s role in deep learning.
3:33: AI is moving faster than expected.
4:18: When superintelligence might arrive.
6:00: Are we already near AGI?
9:10: Do AI systems really understand us?
10:22: Why Hinton thinks AI may be conscious.
13:09: Why Hinton became worried about AI
21:58: What surprised Hinton most.
26:50: Hinton revisits his radiologist prediction.
35:06: AI and self-preservation.
41:59: Why regulation is the steering wheel.

Anthropic Just Warned Everyone About Claude (It’s Evolving)

Anthropic just published a major warning about AI self-improvement, and the numbers behind it are hard to ignore. Claude is now writing most of Anthropic’s code, reviewing code, running experiments, and helping speed up the creation of better AI systems. OpenAI is warning about the same trend, and the race may be moving faster than anyone expected.

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📌 What You’ll See:
Anthropic’s warning about AI self-improvement and Claude building AI
SOURCE: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/r… report on Anthropic’s call for a coordinated AI slowdown SOURCE: https://www.reuters.com/business/anth… Claude agents running automated weak-to-strong AI safety research SOURCE: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/.… Anthropic’s research post on automated alignment researchers SOURCE: https://www.anthropic.com/research/au… OpenAI’s blueprint warning about frontier AI governance SOURCE: https://openai.com/index/frontier-saf… OpenAI’s full governance blueprint PDF SOURCE: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/25752ecb-0… METR report on measuring AI agents completing longer tasks SOURCE: https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-meas… Business Insider report on Anthropic employees and Claude changing coding work SOURCE: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthr… 🚨 Why It Matters Anthropic is warning that AI may already be entering the early stage of building better AI. Claude is writing code, reviewing code, fixing bugs, running experiments, and helping researchers move faster. The big shift is simple: humans may still choose the goals, but AI is starting to handle more of the actual work behind the next generation of AI. #ai #anthropic #claude.
Reuters report on Anthropic’s call for a coordinated AI slowdown.
SOURCE: https://www.reuters.com/business/anth…
Claude agents running automated weak-to-strong AI safety research.
SOURCE: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/.…
Anthropic’s research post on automated alignment researchers.
SOURCE: https://www.anthropic.com/research/au…
OpenAI’s blueprint warning about frontier AI governance.
SOURCE: https://openai.com/index/frontier-saf…
OpenAI’s full governance blueprint PDF
SOURCE: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/25752ecb-0…
METR report on measuring AI agents completing longer tasks.
SOURCE: https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-meas…
Business Insider report on Anthropic employees and Claude changing coding work.
SOURCE: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthr…

🚨 Why It Matters.
Anthropic is warning that AI may already be entering the early stage of building better AI. Claude is writing code, reviewing code, fixing bugs, running experiments, and helping researchers move faster. The big shift is simple: humans may still choose the goals, but AI is starting to handle more of the actual work behind the next generation of AI.

#ai #anthropic #claude

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Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control.

The San Francisco-based company, which makes the Claude family of AI models, said in a report that a worldwide slowdown in cutting-edge AI development would “likely be a good thing” — but warned that if only one company stopped, rivals would simply race ahead.

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” it said.

An ensemble pipeline, PhageHost, for phage tail fiber discovery and accurate Klebsiella pneumoniae host prediction using protein language models

Wu et al. present an ensemble pipeline, PhageHost, comprising a protein language model, TailSeek, for tail fiber detection from phage and prophage genomes and a deep learning model, HostBuster, that integrates tail fiber features with host information to predict the lytic potential of phage–K. pneumoniae pairs.

AI ‘super-antigen’ vaccine could protect against whole families of viruses

A groundbreaking new vaccine technology using artificial intelligence could offer immunity against entire families of viruses and protect against future mutations with a single injection.

Researchers say this could prevent future pandemics before they emerge, saving millions of lives and sparing countries from the necessity of lockdowns.

A “super-antigen” has been developed through AI machine learning that meticulously analyses past and current outbreaks to pinpoint the essential elements for the survival of viruses.

Robin Hanson (part 2): Social Science or Extremist Politics in Disguise?!

What happens when an economist starts designing a future society?

Thirteen years ago, I sat down with Robin Hanson for a second time. It became the most vigorous debate ever recorded.

I rarely disagree with a guest. With Robin, I disagreed more than I ever had.

Here is what unsettled me. His work on the Em Economy reads like social science. It uses the language of markets, incentives, and equilibrium. But underneath the economic reasoning sit choices that are not economic at all. Policies of social discrimination. The full privatization of law and punishment. Minds run a thousand times faster, and handed a thousand times more voting power. Emulations deleted when they cannot pay their storage fees.

These are not technical footnotes. They are ethical and political decisions wearing the costume of impartial analysis.

Adam Smith, the father of economics, was first a moral philosopher. He understood where the tools of his discipline stop being useful and start being dangerous.

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Nano Weapons: The Invisible Machines Changing Future Wars!

In this video, we explore the incredible and terrifying world of nano-weapons — microscopic machines designed for the battlefields of the future. From invisible drones to molecular-level assassins, nanotechnology is revolutionizing modern warfare in ways the world has never seen before. Discover how these tiny machines can spy, sabotage, and even kill at the atomic scale. We’ll uncover real-world research, secret military projects, and the ethical dangers behind the next generation of warfare. The rise of nano-weapons could change the balance of global power forever — but are we ready for what’s coming? Watch till the end to understand the full potential and risks of these microscopic war machines.
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New IronWorm malware hits 36 packages in npm supply-chain attack

A new supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) index with infostealer malware called IronWorm.

The malware targets 86 environment variables (key-value pairs) and 20 credential files that may contain OpenAI, AWS, Anthropic, and npm credentials, vault configuration files, SSH keys, and Exodus cryptocurrency wallet files.

According to researchers at supply-chain and devops company JFrog, IronWorm is written in Rust, hides behind an eBPF kernel rootkit, and communicates with the operator over the Tor network.

Teaching AI to design optical surfaces using real-world imperfections

Designing surfaces that precisely control how light behaves at the nanoscale is tricky. Optical Fourier surfaces, which are nanostructured gratings that redistribute light into specific directions and wavelengths, hold enormous potential for compact spectrometers, augmented-reality displays, and advanced sensors. However, their standard design process relies on computer simulations that assume idealized conditions such as single-angle illumination and the absence of fabrication imperfections—a far cry from reality.

The gap between what simulations predict and what fabricated devices actually do has long frustrated researchers. It widens further when designers try to exploit one of the most powerful but underused design parameters: the angle of incoming light. Changing the incident angle can activate or suppress optical modes without any physical modification to the structure, effectively enabling multiple functions on a single device.

“This effectively introduces an additional degree of freedom beyond geometry, expanding the design space significantly,” said Associate Professor Dong Zhaogang from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). “But its practical use has been limited because simulations at oblique incidence are often computationally unstable and costly, while real experimental systems involve angular distributions rather than single-incident angles.”

Brave Software releases Origin for a paid, bloat-free browsing experience

Brave Software has announced the public release of Origin, a paid minimalist, bloat-free version of its browser that strips out cryptocurrency, AI, rewards, and other monetization-focused features.

The browser maker says Brave Origin is designed for users who want a more streamlined, privacy-focused browser without the company’s optional revenue-generating services and integrations.

“Today, Brave is announcing the release of Brave Origin, a paid version of the browser for users who don’t need all of Brave’s out-of-the-box features, but still want the privacy that only Brave offers,” the company explains.