Godfather of AI Predicts Total Breakdown of Society

"Geoffrey Hinton, one of the three so-called "godfathers" of AI, never misses an opportunity to issue foreboding proclamations about the tech he helped create. During an hour-long public conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University last week, the British computer science laid out all the alarming ways that he forecasts AI will completely upend society for the worst, seemingly leaving little room for human contrivances like optimism."

""The people who lose their jobs won't have other jobs to go to," Hinton said, as quoted by Business Insider. "If AI gets as smart as people - or smarter - any job they might do can be done by AI." "These guys are really betting on AI replacing a lot of workers," Hinton added."

"Hinton pioneered the deep learning techniques that are foundational to the generative AI models fueling the AI boom today. His work on neural networks earned him a Turing Award in 2018, alongside University of Montreal researcher Yoshua Bengio and the former chief AI scientist at Meta Yann LeCun. The trio are considered to be the "godfathers" of AI."

"He hasn't changed his tune since then. He has consistently warned that AI will destroy jobs and create massive unemployment. This month, Hinton then injected more fatalism into this prediction by opining that the AI industry couldn't turn a profit without replacing human labor. In his discussion with Sanders, Hinton reiterated these risks, adding that the multibillionaires spearheading AI, like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison haven't really"

Geoffrey Hinton warns that rapid AI deployment will displace workers without creating new job classes, risking widespread and sustained unemployment. He predicts that if AI reaches or surpasses human intelligence, virtually any human job could be automated. Hinton pioneered deep learning and contributed foundational techniques behind current generative AI models, earning a Turing Award in 2018 with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun. He stepped down from Google in 2023 and expressed regret, repeatedly cautioning that AI-driven businesses may need to replace human labor to turn a profit and that the scale of adoption poses unprecedented societal risks.

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