Geoffrey Hinton on Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Child of Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Metadata
| Source Table | policy_stakeholders |
| Source ID | O-8dBKEupy |
| Source URL | time.com/7008947/california-ai-bill-letter/ |
| Parent | Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act |
| Children | — |
| Created | Apr 14, 2026, 11:38 AM |
| Updated | Apr 14, 2026, 11:38 AM |
| Synced | Apr 14, 2026, 11:38 AM |
Record Data
id | O-8dBKEupy |
policyEntityId | Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act(policy) |
stakeholderEntityId | Geoffrey Hinton(person) |
stakeholderDisplayName | Geoffrey Hinton |
position | support |
importance | high |
reason | Co-authored August 7, 2024 expert letter calling SB 1047 a 'very sensible approach'; stated 'it's critical that we have legislation with real teeth to address the risks' and endorsed the AI employee support letter |
source | time.com/7008947/california-ai-bill-letter/ |
context | [ "Former Google VP; resigned May 2023 to speak freely about AI risks", "2024 Nobel Prize in Physics (with John Hopfield) for neural network foundations", "Co-authored foundational deep learning papers with Bengio (also supporter)", "Former advisor to Google DeepMind (which opposes the bill)… |
Source Check Verdicts
Last checked: 4/9/2026
The record identifies Geoffrey Hinton as a stakeholder in the policy (California's SB 1047 AI safety bill). The source text explicitly confirms that Geoffrey Hinton is one of the four experts who co-authored a letter supporting this bill. The 'unknown' designation in the record appears to refer to an unknown affiliation or role, which is not contradicted by the source—the source simply identifies him as a Turing Award winner and 'godfather of AI' without specifying a current institutional affiliation in this excerpt. The core claim that Hinton is a stakeholder in this policy is directly and clearly confirmed.
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