“Geoffrey Hinton, a VP and engineering fellow at Google and a pioneer of deep learning who developed some of the most important techniques at the heart of modern AI, is leaving the company after 10 years, the New York Times reported today.”
This the guy who invented back-propagation. He has concerns about the direction AI is taking.
https://archive.is/20230501182717/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
New York Times write-up of his exit.