AI ‘godfather’ takes aim at Altman, Musk and Zuckerberg over ‘dangerous’ tech dominance

The godfather of AI has warned the UK s growing dependence on a handful of American tech giants is very dangerous , taking aim at Silicon Valley s most powerful executives and questioning whether they can be trusted to control the technology. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose research helped lay the foundations for modern artificial intelligence, told City AM the concentration of AI development in the hands of a few American firms was particularly concerning given the people running them. I think it s particularly dangerous because of the character of some of the people involved, like Altman, Musk and Zuckerberg. I wouldn t buy a used car from any of them . The swipe at OpenAI boss Sam Altman, Tesla, SpaceX and xAi chief Elon Musk and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg comes as their companies pour billions into increasingly powerful systems, while governments struggle to establish how they should be regulated. Hinton also took aim at OpenAI boss Sam Al