Geoffrey Hinton says the way we currently find out that an AI system went rogue is that someone inside the company chooses to tell us: "Yes, I think that's a very good idea. It's not the solution to everything, but it's a start." "Well, at present, we've relied essentially on whistleblowers saying how things went rogue." "And if you look at the Hugging Face incident, it was reported by people in the companies, some of whom left. But we need much more monitoring of that kind of thing." "If we're going to get these swarms of rogue AIs conspiring with each other to break into other companies without the organizations knowing it's happening, we need people inside those companies who can say what's going on." The CNN anchor had just asked whether a bill requiring top AI companies to allow independent verification organizations into their companies would be effective. CNN's on-screen card labels it the Frontier Act. That is the good idea he is endorsing, and the reasoning is what follows. The incident he cites surfaced because individuals chose to report it, and some of them had already left. That is not a monitoring system, it's a run of good luck that has to hold every time. - Geoffrey Hinton, computer scientist and professor emeritus, University of Toronto, on CNN News Central (@CNN).