Sam Altman · OpenAI · China · Google · Demis Hassabis · The Guardian Technology
Hinton’s role as one of the progenitors of AI has led to comparisons to Robert Oppenheimer
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But he insists: “I was not Oppenheimer”, citing the thousands of other scientists also working in the same field of neural networks.
Key facts
- AI: Probably Nothing To Worry About airs on Channel 4 on 12 November at 10pm
- The AI doomsday threat: Distinguishing facts from fear On Thursday 15 October, join Dan Milmo and Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Stuart J
- He said he viewed incidents this summer in which OpenAI AI agents conspired to hack into the Hugging Face website as akin to 1979’s partial nuclear meltdown at the Three Mile Island power station
- Hinton was speaking before a screening of a new feature-length documentary, AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About, a title suggested by an AI chatbot, featuring him and his former Google colleague
Summary
One of the “godfathers of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems.
Speaking to the Guardian, Hinton took aim at the risk-taking by the leaders of some of the major AI companies who continue to release ever more powerful AI models as they race for supremacy and market-share, saying he didn’t trust Sam Altman, the chief executive of the ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, “at all”.