AI Pioneer Issues Stark Prophecy: Are We Racing Toward an Unstoppable Digital Threat?
Ever wonder if your smart assistant is plotting to outwit you while you’re busy binge-watching cat videos? Geoffrey Hinton—the so-called ‘Godfather of AI’—sure does, and he’s waving some serious red flags about the future of artificial intelligence. Since stepping away from Google, this British brainiac has been pretty vocal about AI’s creeping takeover—kids can’t learn without it, adults can’t work without it, and some folks? Well, they’re even falling head-over-heels for their chatbots. Hinton’s real concern? That once AI gets a brain that’s way bigger than ours, it might not stay our obedient helper for long. He puts it in a way that’s equal parts unsettling and kinda brilliant—can a smarter “assistant” really be controlled, or are we just moms babysitting a toddler version of our future overlords? Plus, there’s a grim economic twist: the rich fattening their wallets while AI sidelines the working class. So yeah, whether you’re gearing up to job-hop before Microsoft’s AI hit list lands or just hoping AI grows a motherly instinct, this ain’t your grandma’s technology warning. Buckle up.
The ‘Godfather of AI’ has issued another chilling warning about how the technology could have a devastating impact on humanity.
Geoffrey Hinton, the British scientist who is known for his work on artificial neural networks, has spoken candidly about the risks of artificial intelligence since leaving Google two years ago.
It’s easy to see how AI is already taking over our lives, as kids seem incapable of doing any learning without it, while adults are equally guilty by using the technology for work purposes, or in a few particularly strange cases, falling in love with it.
While it seems helpful in many ways, it seems almost guaranteed that AI will soon overtake humanity in terms of intelligence, if it hasn’t already.
And, experts such as Hinton are right to point to history and wildlife as examples of why superintelligent beings are rarely happy to be someone’s helpful and subservient assistant.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Hinton suggests: “When the assistant is much smarter than you, how are you going to retain that power? There is only one example we know of a much more intelligent being controlled by a much less intelligent being, and that is a mother and baby . . . If babies couldn’t control their mothers, they would die.”
Geoffrey Hinton has long been renowned as the ‘Godfather of AI’ (Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images)
After several warnings about the future of the human race as AI continues to become even more intelligent, Hinton has now explained why it’s poorer people who, perhaps unsurprisingly, are going to suffer the most.
He said: “What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers.
“It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, that is the capitalist system.”
Fortunately, Microsoft has released a list of the jobs that are most at risk and the safest from the threat of artificial intelligence, so you still have time to switch up your career, but certainly any jobs involving data or mathematics could be in serious trouble.
Hinton has warned that rich business owners could turn to AI in their workforce in the future (Getty Stock)
But jobs may well be the last of our worries if we become enslaved by the artificial intelligence, and Hinton reaffirmed his previous statement that our only hope could be instilling a maternal instinct into all AI models, so that they want to care for us no matter how much more intelligent they are.
He explained that that is ‘the kind of relationship we should be aiming for’, ‘because the mother is very concerned about the baby, preserving the life of the baby.’
So, if you don’t want to become Alexa’s personal assistant or be coddled by ChatGPT, then maybe stop feeding it so much intelligence when a simple Google search or even picking up a book would do the trick.
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