‘AI will start killing people in six months’, British godfather of AI warns

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British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton will warn global leaders at a summit on Friday (Picture: AFP/Getty Images) The ‘Godfather of AI’ will say that there is a ‘meaningful risk’ AI…

The ‘Godfather of AI’ will say that there is a ‘meaningful risk’ AI could start killing people within the next six months.

Professor Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian Nobel Prize winner known for developing artificial neural networks, says he is going to deliver a stark warning to global leaders at an AI summit in Dublin on Friday.

It comes after fellow AI expert Paul Christiano, founder of the Alignment Research Centre, warned there was a ‘high risk’ of an AI takeover within the next three years during the AI Safety Foundation’s Hinton Lectures in Toronto, Canada

Speaking during his opening 2026 Hinton Lecture, he said on Monday: ‘I think for most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident.’

‘I’ve been going around saying this stuff’s going to get smarter than us and we really need to worry and it might happen within 10 years. And so I’m the one who is scaring other people,’ he said on Wednesday.

‘But I go to Paul’s lectures and he says this stuff might happen in the next 18 months and that’s terrifying.’

Professor Hinton, who informally advises the UK Government on AI, then continued: ‘So I’m going to tell a bunch of government leaders that on Friday and we will see how they react.’

Elsewhere in his speech, he touched on how his views on AI have changed.

‘If it’s super-intelligent, it’s not going to be you controlling it – it’s going to be it controlling you,’ he continued.

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