AI will power “highly intelligent and knowledgeable assistants,” but governments must pay “urgent and forceful attention” to harmful uses like mass surveillance and the design of new weapons, University of Toronto emeritus professor Geoffrey Hinton said at the Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm on Tuesday. (The Logic)

Talking point: The computer scientist is using his win for pioneering work on AI—one of two Nobels awarded to researchers in the field this year—as another platform for his warnings about the risks of the technology. Companies “motivated by short-term profits” won’t prioritize safety when developing people-besting AI, he said Tuesday. Hinton himself has pledged $350,000 of  his Nobel winnings towards a real-world cause: Water First Education and Training, a Creemore, Ont. charity focused on supporting Indigenous communities’ access to safe and clean drinking water.