>“With climate change, it’s very easy to recommend what you should do: you just stop burning carbon. If you do that, eventually things will be okay. For this it’s not at all clear what you should do.”

> “I’m in the camp that thinks this is an existential risk, and it’s close enough that we ought to be working very hard right now, and putting a lot of resources into figuring out what we can do about it,” Hinton said.

I am sure he does not believe that.

Because, if we actually believed AI was an existential threat, then the thing to do immediately is to ban all AI training (it would be easy as AI training is pretty expensive) and to hunt down all AI researchers and place them in solitary confinement for the rest of their lives.

This would actually contain the threat and moreover have very minimal disruption of normal people's lives.

And if you really believed that AI was an existential threat, you could argue that that course of action is the most moral to take (greatest good to greatest number and all that).