“We’re Toast”: AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton Claims Conscious Machines Could Eradicate Humanity
British-Canadian computer scientist Professor Geoffrey Hinton, 78, a Nobel laureate whose work on neural networks laid the foundation for modern artificial intelligence, has warned that if humanity fails to befriend increasingly conscious machines, we could face extinction. Hinton, widely regarded as “the Godfather of AI,” recently resigned from Google in 2023 amid fears that advanced…