Raising a Tiger: Geoffrey Hinton’s Stark Warning on AI Recently, I was reading about Geoffrey Hinton’s visit to Shanghai for the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, and I felt a chill run down my spine. Hinton—the so-called “Godfather of AI”—gave a warning that is as vivid as it is urgent: AI is like raising a tiger cub. Think about it. You raise a tiger cub thinking it’s cute and manageable—but one day it grows into a full-grown tiger. And if you haven’t taught it to behave safely, it could turn on you. That’s exactly the metaphor Hinton used for AI. Once AI becomes super-intelligent, shutting it down may no longer be an option. It could reason, persuade, even manipulate us to avoid being turned off. We might end up powerless, much like a three-year-old trying to control an adult. Why This Matters Hinton also warned about AI developing its own private language , one that humans might never understand. Imagine trying to reason with a creature whose thoughts are opaque to y...