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21 October 2026 · By AI Informator

Cartoon: on a black-sand beach in Tenerife, with snow-capped Mount Teide behind, Geoffrey Hinton, as a lifeguard high on his chair, calmly hoists a yellow flag while the sunbathers keep lying in the sun; a single metal fin etched with circuits breaks the surface of the sea and, on the left, two people run off in panic with a megaphone next to a siren. It plays on his warning at Starmus that the risk of an AI catastrophe is "more than 1%": neither panic nor calm, just caution.
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Hinton, who is taking part in Starmus, the science festival co-founded by astrophysicist Garik Israelian and musician and astrophysicist Brian May, distanced himself from the 99% chance that “if anyone builds it, we all die” that, by his account, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares talk about: “It’s more than 1%, so we have to be really worried” (our translation).

Read more: El País — Geoffrey Hinton, el padrino de la IA: “No soy catastrofista. Creo que hay un 1% de posibilidades de que nos destruya” (21-10-2026) ↗

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