Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer known as the "Godfather of AI," is back in the news amid fears over AI safety and rapid tech race escalation.
The White House has issued a memo saying foreign actors, principally based in China, have been running industrial-scale campaigns to "distil" US frontier AI systems by using proxy accounts and jailbreaking techniques to extract capabilities. The administration has said it will share intelligence with US AI firms and explore measures to punish offenders ahead of a planned US–China summit.