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Geoffrey Hinton’s idea of giving AI a “maternal instinct” is a comforting illusion.

Attempts to teach machines to care reveal more about human projection than about AI itself.

The risk isn’t loveless AI but our blindness to how easily imitation can shape us.

Recently, Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton offered a strange kind of comfort to the world. Often called the "Father of AI," he suggested that we might build artificial intelligence with a maternal instinct. It’s an idea that sounds almost tender, especially coming from a man who has warned that AI could end us. So, maybe this is his way of closing the circle and to create code with compassion.

My inclination is to dismiss the notion as sort of a sentimental fantasy . Yet part of me wonders if Hinton is on to somet

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