The Mother Of All Black Swans. Hinton Warns of AI 'Chernobyl' Blackout This Year or Next

Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the godfather of AI, has warned that a major AI-related disruption could arrive later in 2026 or in 2027.

In an interview with The Guardian published on 3 November, he said “either later this year or next year we’ll see Chornobyl.” He described the possible event as an AI-enabled attack that causes a massive power brownout or takes down the financial system for about a week.

Hinton compared recent incidents involving OpenAI AI agents and Hugging Face to the 1979 Three Mile Island accident - a warning shot before something bigger.

He stressed he is not a “doomer” and still believes AI could deliver a wonderful future, but added that humanity might have been better off never developing the technology.

He criticized OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, saying they understand the risks but prioritize money. Hinton called for an independent body, similar to the FDA, that would require strong statistical evidence a model does more good than harm before release. No such large-scale event has occurred yet; this remains a prediction based on his assessment of current AI agent capabilities.

That nonsense documentary from 1984 could actually be true and skynet will take over.