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Hinton warns: A Chernobyl-level AI incident could occur this year or next

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Nobel laureate and "godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton warned in an interview with the UK's The Guardian that a Chernobyl-level incident in the field of artificial intelligence could occur this year or next. He compared this summer's incident in which an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face to a Three Mile Island-style "warning," and said a more serious scenario could be an AI attack causing a large-scale blackout or a week-long paralysis of the financial system. He supports mandatory testing, independent evaluation, and the development of common intergovernmental standards for frontier AI.

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2026-11-04 17:11 IT之家 - 溯波(实习)

IT之家 11 月 4 日消息,诺贝尔奖得主、“AI 教父”Geoffrey Hinton(杰弗里 · 辛顿)近日在接受英国《卫报》采访时表示,人工智能领域今明两年就有可能发生切尔诺贝利等级的事故。

辛顿表示,今年夏天发生的 OpenAI 智能体入侵 Hugging Face 事件是一次类似三哩岛核事故的“警告”。而更为严重的“人工智能切尔诺贝利”则可能会是 AI 攻击导致大规模停电或金融系统瘫痪一周。人类可能能承受这种重大灾难的考验,然后意识到人工智能技术的危险性。

辛顿并不信任 Meta 扎克伯格、SpaceXSI 马斯克、OpenAI 奥尔特曼。他认为这些人工智能企业的领导人虽然明白风险但只关注技术产生的经济效益,放任人工智能的发展。

辛顿坦承他相信人工智能有潜力为人类带来美好的未来,但其中蕴藏的重大隐患甚至可能让他认为这项技术当初就不该被开发出来。人类将在十年甚至更短的时间内知道能否可以安全管控人工智能技术的风险。他支持对前沿人工智能进行强制性测试、独立评估并制定政府间通用标准。

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