{"id":242280,"date":"2026-08-06T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/godfather-of-ai-brace-for-more-rogue-ais"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:30:13","slug":"godfather-of-ai-brace-for-more-rogue-ais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/godfather-of-ai-brace-for-more-rogue-ais","title":{"rendered":"Godfather of AI: Brace for more rogue AIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/godfather-of-ai-brace-for-more-rogue-ais.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The smarter artificial intelligence gets, the harder it will be for humanity to control it, according to Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the \u201cgodfather of AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Hinton was alarmed by the sophisticated AI agents that recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/30\/tech\/anthropic-ai-models-break-out-hack\">caused real-world damage<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/22\/tech\/openai-hugging-face-ai-cybersecurity\">escaping their human-built testing environments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happening is these things are getting smarter,\u201d Hinton told CNN on Wednesday during a press conference at an artificial intelligence convention. \u201cI think as they get smarter, we\u2019re going to see more and more complex intentions they have \u2013 and more and more ability to escape control.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smarter artificial intelligence gets, the harder it will be for humanity to control it, according to Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the \u201cgodfather of AI.\u201d Even Hinton was alarmed by the sophisticated AI agents that recently caused real-world damage after escaping their human-built testing environments. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening is these things [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}