AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried

We have to think that they're very like us. And they're beings like us. So conscious or um, I believe they're already conscious, yes. We're gonna have to accept that intelligence isn't just biological. We can have things that are non-biological that are other beings like us.

And we really don't want to share that. We we really think we're special. And if you look back at humanity, humanity has this very long history of thinking it's much more special than it really is. Are you happy at all that what you started has progressed this way? Do you take any satisfaction?

When unhappy about it, ask yourself, how many examples do you know of where a much smarter thing is controlled by a much less smart thing? Well, as I understand it, they have a fiducial duty to try and maximize the profits for shareholders. Um, they're legally required to try and do that, as opposed to legally required to not wipe out human human beings. AI godfather Jeff Hinton joins us to talk about AI's trajectory, what surprised him, about its progress, and, of course, its risks. That's coming up on Big Technology Podcast right after this.

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