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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

#BernieSanders is currently live on YT with Geoffrey Hinton ("godfather of AI") telling sci-fi stories so people demand regulation that puts AI solely in the hands of big tech like Google, and kills #opensource

Geoffrey Hinton "resigned" from Google to start a AI doomer non-profit at University of Toronto.

And guess who just yesterday gave Hinton a $10 million donation to his non-profit? GOOGLE.

lol incredible.

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-establishes-new-hinton-chair-artificial-intelligence-support-google

Published: December 3, 2025 By Advancement Staff The University of Toronto has established the Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence with $10 million in funding from Google. This new chair will honour the extraordinary legacy of University Professor Emeritus and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton at U of T and Google by enabling the university to recruit and retain another brilliant, internationally recognized Al expert to make profound contributions to the field. "On behalf of the university, I would like to express our deepest gratitude to Google for this wonderful investment," said U of T President Melanie Woodin. "This new chair will enable us to build on Geoff Hinton's historic contributions in artificial intelligence and to advance our record of transformational research in fields of crucial importance to the world."