Geoffrey Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada and a Nobel Prize winner in physics, known as the ‘godfather’ of artificial intelligence (AI), warned about the dangers of AI.
According to the British daily Guardian on the 27th (local time), Professor Hinton appeared on BBC Radio and diagnosed that the rapid development of AI technology could pose a threat to the survival of humanity.
He said the speed of technological change is “much faster” than expected and pointed out that there is a 10 to 20 percent chance that humanity will become extinct within the next 30 years due to AI.
Professor Hinton had argued in the past that there was a 10% chance that technological development would lead to catastrophic results for humanity, but he believed that that probability had increased.
“Humanity has never dealt with something smarter than ourselves,” he said. “How many cases can there be of something more intelligent being controlled by something less intelligent? “There is almost nothing,” he said.
He added, “This is the only example I know of where a baby controls its mother through the power of evolution.”
He also predicted that humans are mere infants compared to very powerful AI systems and that “we will end up like three-year-old children.”
Professor Hinton said that when he first started researching AI, he did not expect that it would develop this quickly. He pointed out, “Most experts believe that AI that is smarter than humans will be developed within 20 years, which is a very scary prospect.”
In addition, he said that the speed of technology development is much, much faster than he expected and called for government regulation.
He emphasized, “Leaving it only to large, profit-seeking companies may not be enough,” and added, “Government regulation is the only way to force large companies to do more research for safety.”
Professor Hinton received this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for establishing the foundations of AI machine learning.
He was called a ‘pioneer’ in the AI field and even served as vice president at Google, but after parting ways with Google in April last year, he was also called a ‘whistleblower’ as he publicly warned about the dangers of AI. He has said that he left Google to freely warn about the negative effects AI will have on humanity.
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