{
  "id": 1456111,
  "title": "'Godfather of AI' agrees with Elon Musk: Mass unemployment is coming and worse",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/godfather-of-ai-agrees-with-elon-musk-mass-unemployment-is-coming-and",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-17T07:21:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/when-godfather-of-ai-agreed-with-elon-musk-said-billionaires-like-him-are-right-about-future-of-work-but-there-is-a-big-problem-and-that-is-/articleshow/133289931.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the \"Godfather of AI\", says Elon Musk is right that AI will end most jobs. Speaking with Senator Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University, the AI pioneer warned of massive unemployment, arguing Big Tech's trillion-dollar data centre spending only pays off by replacing workers cheaply. Sanders estimates nearly 100 million US jobs face automation risk.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}