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Geoffrey Hinton Warns Congress: One Year for AI Safeguards

By Drooid · Sep 17, 2026, 11:14 PM UTC · How we work

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Geoffrey Hinton warned Congress it has about one year to enact AI safeguards.
He called AI recursive self-improvement a “little Chernobyl”.
He urged mandatory pre-release chatbot testing and DNA-synthesis screening.
Representative Ted Lieu co-authored the AI Kill Switch Act after the Hugging Face breach.
Senator Rand Paul blocked a unanimous-consent request for the kill-switch bill.

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Geoffrey Hinton warned Congress it has about one year to enact AI safeguards.
He called AI recursive self-improvement a “little Chernobyl”.
He urged mandatory pre-release chatbot testing and DNA-synthesis screening.
Representative Ted Lieu co-authored the AI Kill Switch Act after the Hugging Face breach.
Senator Rand Paul blocked a unanimous-consent request for the kill-switch bill.