Geoffrey Hinton’s (very dark) Nobel Speech …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f5WQAk3dYo
Might he (Hinton) become a modern Midgley? A pioneer who turns away from his key work. He developed one technology only to be depressed about tis effects and then developed another, which in the end proved to be equally flawed After all he is one of the great pioneers of the technology he is warning us about.
Or he is more like Oppenheimer – swept up into creating an invention that he realised was too dangerous to exist and spent the remainder of his life resisting it … (unsuccessfully)?
Thomas Midgley discovered the usefulness of lead in petrol engines. Great!
But, the story goes, the serious harm to public health caused by lead additives (to himself and widely) shocked him. To do better he went on to develop improved refrigeration methods using CFCs …
…he didn’t live long enough to see how well that turned out!