“We’re Toast”: AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton Claims Conscious Machines Could Eradicate Humanity

British-Canadian computer scientist Professor Geoffrey Hinton, 78, a Nobel laureate whose work on neural networks laid the foundation for modern artificial intelligence, has warned that if humanity fails to befriend increasingly conscious machines, we could face extinction. Hinton, widely regarded as “the Godfather of AI,” recently resigned from Google in 2023 amid fears that advanced…

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New Mexico Judge Orders $25 Billion Penalty for Meta’s Decades-Long Deception of Users

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to pay $25 billion for misleading users about their privacy, personal data, and content moderation. The ruling follows a jury verdict finding nearly 44 million violations of state consumer-protection law in a case that traces back to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal. The lawsuit, filed…

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