'Godfather of AI' leaves Google, warns of tech's dangers
Geoffrey Hinton, the man widely considered as the “godfather” of artificial intelligence, has left Google — with a message sharing his concerns about potential dangers stemming from the same technology he helped build
By MATT O'BRIEN and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
Published - May 02, 2023, 10:42 AM ET
Last Updated - Jun 21, 2023, 11:57 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sounding alarms about artificial intelligence has become a popular pastime in the ChatGPT era, taken up by high-profile figures as varied as industrialist Elon Musk, leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky and the 99-year-old retired statesman Henry Kissinger.
Some of the dangers of AI chatbots are "quite scary," Hinton told the BBC. “Right now, they’re not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be.”
In an interview with MIT Technology Review, Hinton also pointed to “bad actors” that may use AI in ways that could have detrimental impacts on society — such as manipulating elections or instigating violence.
