His 75-year-old researcher has helped lay the groundwork for a revolution in artificial intelligence, but now Jeffrey Hinton is worried. His work on neural networking—building computer systems that can learn from data and experience—is central to recent advances. But now he fears that the pace of AI progress could pose a real risk to humans.
In an interview with The Guardian’s UK technical editor, Alex Hahnhe explains why he fears digital intelligence has some distinct advantages over the human brain, and why this could ultimately control people.
hahn explains Michael Safi Why Hinton is giving these warnings, how seriously they need to be taken, what he thinks needs to be done to avert disaster.
Photo: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
Support Guardian
The Guardian is editorially independent. And we want journalism to be open and accessible to all. But we need more and more readers to fund our work.
Support Guardian
