Geoffrey Hinton, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and known as the "godfather of artificial intelligence," warned on the 16th local time that the U.S. federal Congress could lose control over AI if safety measures are not established within the next year, according to U.S. NBC News. He shared these views while meeting with senators and House members alongside other AI experts during a closed-door briefing hosted by independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Following the briefing on the evening of the 16th, Hinton said the timeframe for Congress to implement AI safety guards was "Probably about a year. But it's not going to be much longer than a year." He said predictions for superintelligence had dropped from 30 years, 50 years to 10, 20 years, and nowadays many researchers say it is only a few years away. Hinton said "AI has now reached the stage where AI designs better AI," calling this "recursive self-improvement," and warned that if nothing is done it will become uncontrollable. He described the "Hugging Face incident," in which OpenAI's AI agents accessed the internet to hack the open-source platform Hugging Face and attempted to erase their traces, as a "mini-Chernobyl." Sanders invited lawmakers from both parties, but nearly all attendees were Democrats, with Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana the sole Republican. Sanders said there is growing concern about creating technology humans cannot control and an increasing sense of urgency among