Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google to speak about AI risk

Geoffrey Hinton, a Turing Award winner for his work on deep learning and a vice president at Google, said on 1 May 2023 that he had left the company after a decade. He told The New York Times he wanted to speak freely about the risks of the systems he had helped build.

Why it mattered The argument over AI risk gained a leading scientist with no employer left to protect, four weeks before hundreds of researchers signed a warning of their own.