Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng Share One Stage Today at Ai4 2026 — a Direct Collision of Incompatible AI Risk Positions

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The three appear together on the main stage at The Venetian in Las Vegas on August 5, the middle day of Ai4 2026 (August 4–6, 12,000+ attendees, 1,000+ speakers, 400+ exhibitors). The pairing is deliberately adversarial: Hinton holds that the industry may be building something that ends humanity as we know it, while Ng has repeatedly called that framing harmful nonsense deployed to slow competitors and capture regulators, with Li's spatial-intelligence/world-models thesis sitting orthogonal to both. Worth watching for whether the 'pacing the frontier' consensus that OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed in late July survives contact with Ng in person.