No one's leaving Goog to warn of dangers of AI. It does indeed sound like he was pushed out. The company is trying to consolidate the AI orgs and get into execution mode and perhaps whatever role Hinton was offered was not suitable to his taste. I'm sure he'll land somewhere amazing if he even wants or needs to continue working. I am curious to see what direction Google takes to combat the ever growing threats across the ecosystem. They still have search, email, and web-browsing. The real challenge here is how quickly can they mobilize, and how much can they work through regulation to use the above moats to produce the next sticky product that will maintain and grow their dominance in the market.