[dragonwriter]

> Hinton has a much, much higher profile and much, much larger contribution to the field than those axe-grinding self-appointed “ethics” researchers

They were appointed by the same kind of people who appointed Hinton, corporate management (in several cases, the exact same corporate management who appointed Hinton.)

The primary difference (leaving aside the demographic difference that has alread been raised) is that they were pointing out real, current, measurable harms that are inconvenient for people selling the technology, and Hinton is pointing out the same fantasies that are being used by major players in the field to argue for anti-competitive regulation and against openness.