Geoffrey Hinton, 75, resigned from Google last month after more than a decade in order to "freely speak out about the risks of AI," the Times says. He won a 2018 Turing Award for pioneering some of the technology that now powers ChatGPT and similar generative AI tools—and has earned the nickname "Godfather of AI"—but now says a part of him regrets his life's work. Hinton's immediate concern is the spread of misinformation: a flood of fake photos, videos, and text that makes it impossible to know "what is true anymore." New tools that create deepfakes, or computer-generated clones of a famous person's voice and appearance, make it easy for anyone with a computer and internet connection to misrepresent public figures.
