What happens when three founders of modern artificial intelligence sit down together and discover they don’t agree on where it is taking us? That was the extraordinary moment at Ai4 when Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng shared the stage for a conversation that ranged from runaway AI agents and job destruction to education, regulation, open models and whether AI’s biggest impact could ultimately be curing disease or eliminating illiteracy. These weren’t three AI commentators speculating from the sidelines. Hinton helped lay the foundations for modern neural networks and received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work [...]