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'Godfather of AI' warns that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the next 30 years

2024-12-28 22:22:12Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
'Godfather of AI' warns that artificial intelligence could wipe out
Geoffrey Hinton

The British-Canadian computer scientist, often heralded as the "godfather" of artificial intelligence, has raised the odds that the latter will wipe out humanity over the next three decades, warning that the pace of change in technology is "much faster" than expected.

Professor Geoffrey Hinton, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics this year for his work on Artificial Intelligence, said there is a 10%-20% chance that Artificial Intelligence will lead humanity to destruction in the next three decades.

Hinton had previously said there was a 10% chance that the technology would cause a catastrophic outcome for humanity.

Asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he had changed his analysis of a possible AI apocalypse and the 1 in 10 chance of it happening, he said: "Not really, 10% to 20%.

Hinton's assessment prompted Today's guest editor, former minister Sajid Javid, to say "you're going too far", to which Hinton replied: "If anything. You see, we've never had to deal with things more intelligent than we have before."

He added: "And how many examples do you know of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing? There are very few examples. There is a mother and a child. Evolution has done a lot of work to allow the child to control the mother, but that is the only example I know of."

London-born Hinton, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto, said humans would be dwarfed by the intelligence of very powerful AI systems.

"I like to think of it like this: imagine yourself and a three-year-old child. We're going to be three years old," he said.

AI can be loosely defined as computer systems that perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.

Last year, Hinton made headlines after resigning from his job at Google in order to speak more openly about the dangers posed by the unfettered development of AI, citing concerns that “bad actors” would use the technology to harm others. A key concern of AI safety activists is that the creation of artificial general intelligence, or systems that are smarter than humans, could lead to technology that poses an existential threat by evading human control.

Reflecting on where he thought AI development would have reached when he first started his work in the technology, Hinton said: “I didn’t think it would be where [we are] now. I thought at some point in the future we would get here.”


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