Geoffrey Hinton Helped Create AI Black Box, Driving 2nd Black Box Season

1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 24

Geoffrey Hinton is profiled as a researcher who pursued brain science and ended up helping create AI systems so powerful that even their inventors do not fully understand them.
The episode frames that outcome as a collision between two “black boxes” — the human brain and artificial intelligence — with the technology’s inner workings still opaque.
Black Box season one, first broadcast on March 4, 2024, is being replayed while Today in Focus is on a summer break and returns with new episodes on Sept. 1.
Season two of Black Box is scheduled for early September, as the series argues that this poorly understood AI already carries profound real-world consequences.