Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly in recent years, but the technology’s potential long-term risks are also drawing fresh warnings from some of its pioneers.
Geoffrey Hinton, referred to as the Godfather of AI, has said it is ‘not unreasonable’ to predict that it could wipe out humanity within the next decade.
Speaking to the BBC’s Newsnight, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist put the probability at around 10%, while stressing that there was no reliable method for calculating such a risk.
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