{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-09T21:13:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-03-hinton-better-off-without-ai/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-03-hinton-better-off-without-ai/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-11-03-hinton-better-off-without-ai","date":"2026-11-03","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Geoffrey Hinton: 'it might turn out we were better off without AI'","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":2,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"partly","labels":["Partly confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Futurism: AI godfather says to get ready for a Chernobyl-style event","url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-godfather-chernobyl-blackout","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"futurism.com"},{"n":2,"title":"The Guardian: AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton – better off without AI","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/03/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-better-off-without-ai","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"theguardian.com"},{"n":3,"title":"Daily Times: Hinton warns humanity might have been better off without technology","url":"https://dailytimes.com.pk/1576638/godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-warns-humanity-might-have-been-better-off-without-technology/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"dailytimes.com.pk"},{"n":4,"title":"Hacker News discussion","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363554","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"news.ycombinator.com"}],"official":0,"filed":"2026-11-05","updated":"2026-11-08","orgs":["University of Toronto"],"title":"Geoffrey Hinton: 'it might turn out we were better off without AI'","summary":"The Guardian reported on Nov 3, 2026 that Geoffrey Hinton said it might turn out humanity would have been better off without AI; follow-up coverage says he again put the chance of AI causing human extinction at 10–20%, warned of possible economic or power-grid disruption within a year, and urged developers to put safety before speed. The story reached 309 points on Hacker News.","key_facts":["Quoted by Futurism (Nov 7) from the Guardian interview: 'Either later this year or next year we'll see Chernobyl, and that may be enough to make people really pay attention'","Headline quote per the Guardian/HN: 'it might turn out we were better off without AI'","Daily Times (Nov 4) paraphrase: 10–20% extinction risk; hard-to-control autonomous agents; job losses and inequality; benefits in medicine acknowledged","We could not open the Guardian article; the venue of the interview is not confirmed"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["hinton","warnings","x-risk"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nWritten from the headline and secondary coverage; the Guardian page was not readable for us.","disputed":[],"related":[],"people":[{"id":"geoffrey-hinton","name":"Geoffrey Hinton","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/geoffrey-hinton/"}],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-11-08","type":"edit","text":"Chernobyl quote via Futurism"},{"date":"2026-11-05","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-11-05","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-11-08","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-11-08"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":187,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":126,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":217,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":156,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}