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Geoffrey Hinton
The 'godfather of AI', Nobel laureate turned risk whistleblower.
Hinton kept neural networks alive through the winters, co-invented backpropagation practice and AlexNet's lineage, won the Turing Award (2018) and the Nobel Prize in Physics (2024), then left Google in 2023 specifically to warn that the technology he built may pose existential risks, putting his estimate of catastrophe at double digits.
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Demis Hassabis
DeepMind's founder-CEO: chess prodigy, Nobel laureate, AGI's steady hand.
Hassabis founded DeepMind in 2010 to 'solve intelligence, then use it to solve everything else': AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaFold followed, the last earning him the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Now leading all of Google's AI, he pairs frontier Gemini releases with a scientist's insistence that true AGI remains 5–10 years out and that science, not chat, is…
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