Humans have to befriend bots 'or we're toast' and I 'fear for' my children, says genius Brit AI inventor

Daily Mail - Oct 20, 2026

Professor Geoffrey Hinton, a British-Canadian computer scientist known for his work on artificial neural networks, issued the stark warning at a festival in Tenerife.

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