Dr. Geoffrey Hinton spent his whole life developing AI and has quit Google to speak more freely about the dangers of the tech with his immediate concern being that people won't know “what is true anymore.”
with The New York Times, his most immediate concern with AI was its use in flooding the internet with fake photos, videos and text, to the extent that many won’t “be able to know what is true anymore.”. In the future, he believes AI could pose a threat to humanity due to it learning unexpected behaviors from the massive amounts of data it analyzes.
He also expressed concern at the continuing AI arms race that seeks to further develop the tech for use in lethal autonomous weapons systems .“I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have.” In recent months, regulators, lawmakers and tech industry executives have also expressed concern about the development of AI. In March, over 2,600 tech executives and researchers
in March that urged for a temporary halt of AI development citing “profound risks to society and humanity.”
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