News Summary

• Hinton's prescription for the AI safety debate came after predictions of AI catastrophes and after OpenAI’s decision to shelve its latest model.
• OpenAI's head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, previously told Business Insider that GPT-6.1 Astra improved at persisting through difficult tasks but fell short on permissions and communicating what it had done.
• Hinton said that AI is increasingly helping itself improve, potentially accelerating both its capabilities and its dangers.
• "So, it's just a guess," Hinton added, "but I guess we have a year or two before everything gets much worse than it is now"