Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of AI,” is warning of a Chernobyl-like AI event, saying humanity has roughly a decade to know whether AI can be safely developed and deployed.

Hinton’s work into AI and neural networks is widely credited with laying the groundwork for the modern AI industry and frontier models being developed. Despite his work, Hinton left his job at Google in 2023 to sound the alarm on the dangers the tech poses.

In an interview with The Guardian , Hinton struck a hopeful tone, while still emphasizing the inherent dangers involved in developing powerful AI models.…