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Geoffrey Hinton told The Guardian that AI could trigger a large-scale incident, such as a temporary shutdown of financial or power systems, later this year or next. He criticised the risk-taking of AI company leaders and backed mandatory independent testing of frontier models before release, modelled on the FDA's drug approval process.
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