Earlier this month, Geoffrey Hinton, the 76-year-old “Godfather of AI,” was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. Hinton’s seminal contributions to neural networks are credited with ushering in the explosion in artificial intelligence today, but lately he has gained a reputation as an alarmist: After more than a decade at Google, he quit last year to focus instead on warning the public about the risks posed to humanity by AI. In my own line of work, however, Hinton achieved notoriety in 2016 when ...