Hinton isn’t the first Nobel laureate to warn about the risks of the technology that he helped pioneer.
Irene Joliot-Curie and Frederic Joliot shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935.
AFP/Getty Images1945: Antibiotic resistanceSir Alexander Fleming shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in medicine with Ernst Chain and Sir Edward Florey for the discovery of penicillin and its application in curing bacterial infections.
“I, for one, would not shrink from that challenge.”Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2020 for her work on a new method of gene editing.
Nobel Prize Outreach/Brittany Hosea-Small/Handout/Reuters2020: Gene editingFour years ago, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing called CRISPR-Cas9.
Persons:
Geoffrey Hinton, ”, ” Hinton, John Hopfield “, Hinton, Hinton isn’t, Irene Joliot, Curie, Frederic Joliot, Marie, Pierre Curie, Joliot, “, Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Chain, Sir Edward Florey, Fleming, underdose, Jeffrey Gerber, ” Gerber, ” Paul Berg, Tobbe, Paul Berg, Berg, Joanna Rose, it’s, Jesse Gelsinger, ” Jennifer Doudna, Brittany Hosea, Gene, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, ” Doudna, “ We’ve, ” CNN’s Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt
Organizations:
CNN, Google, University of Toronto, Princeton University, Hulton, Getty, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, World Health Organization, Nobel, Innovative Genomics Institute
Locations:
AFP, ”, Stockholm