One of the founding fathers of modern artificial intelligence, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, is issuing his most urgent warning yet about the risks posed by rapidly advancing AI technologies. In a new public statement and interview, Hinton—often referred to as the “Godfather of AI”—says the world is dangerously unprepared for the consequences of unchecked AI development and commercialization.
Hinton, who helped lay the groundwork for deep learning and neural networks, the technologies behind ChatGPT, Google Bard, and countless other AI systems, says companies are racing ahead without sufficient guardrails. "The pace of advancement is accelerating, but the safeguards and. . .