The artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has grabbed headlines around the world for quitting Google so he can warn the public about the dangers of A.I. without having to watch his words—and, as he conceded to the BBC, because he’s “75, so it’s time to retire.”
Hinton first laid out his concerns in a New York Times interview, saying he partially regrets the work he has done to bring A.I. to its current state. He’s worried about Google and Microsoft racing too vigorously to develop A.I. technologies, about propagandists flooding the internet with deepfakes—and about A.I. replacing human workers in “drudge work” roles.
