Geoffrey Hinton, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and a leading AI researcher often called the godfather of modern artificial intelligence, warned of the risks of large-scale cyberattacks using AI in an interview with the British daily The Guardian on November 3 (local time), citing the possibility of a large-scale attack on the power system or a so-called "Chernobyl accident" in which a bank hack paralyzes the financial system for about a week. "We could recover from such an incident," Hinton said, adding, "The world's leaders would then wake up and pay attention." He predicted that humanity would find out within the next 10 years whether it can properly control the risks posed by AI, warning that if risk management succeeds, AI could bring prosperity through enormous productivity gains, but if it fails, it could lead to an extreme widening of the wealth gap, mass unemployment, and social conflict and instability. Hinton also strongly condemned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by saying, "I don't trust him at all," and mentioned Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying, "They understand the risks of AI, but they don't care. I think they just want more money." However, Hinton did not portray AI's future as entirely bleak, saying AI could bring about a "wonderful future" and that he is not a pessimist about AI. Hinton pioneered research into artificial neural networks in the