“When Geoffrey Hinton, often called the "Godfather of AI," left his position at Google in May 2023, I was struck with grave concern. It was an indication that something had happened to humanity that we will never be able to return from. You can call it innovation. I’ll call it Uranus in Taurus approaching Algol. The shakeup was going to take all of our heads! What value would independent thought have anymore? We still don’t know.”