Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them, But We’ve Already Lost Control! Geoffrey Hinton

They call you the godfather of AI. What would you be saying to people about their career prospects in a world of super intelligence? Trained to be a plumber. Really? Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna become a plum.

Jeffrey Hinton is the Nobel Prize winning pioneer whose groundbreaking work has shaped AI and the future of humanity. Why do they call me the godfather of AI? Because there weren't many people who believed that we could model AI on the brain. So that it learned to do complicated things, like recognize objects and images, or even do reasoning. And I pushed that approach for fifty years. And then Google acquired that technology. And I worked there for ten years. Well something that's now used all the time in AI. And then you left. Yeah. Why? So that I could talk freely at a conference. What did you want to talk about freely? How dangerous A I could be. I

I realize that these things will one day get smarter than us. And we've never had to deal with that. And if you want to know what life's like when you're not the apex intelligence, ask a chicken. So there's risks that come from people misusing AI and then there's risks from AI getting super smart and deciding it doesn't need us. Is that a real risk? Yes it is. But they're not gonna stop it because it's too good for too many things. What about regulations? They have some but they're not designed to deal with most of the threats. Like the European regulations have uh claws that say none of these apply to military uses of AI. Really? Yeah, it's crazy. One of your students left OpenAI. Yeah. He was probably the most important person behind the development of the early versions of chat GPT. And I think he left because he had safety concerns.

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