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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

TechScape: AI is feared to be apocalyptic or touted as world-changing – maybe it’s neither

AI intelligence pioneer and former Google employee Geoffrey Hinton.
AI intelligence pioneer and former Google employee Geoffrey Hinton. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

What if AI doesn’t fundamentally reshape civilisation?

This week, I spoke to Geoffrey Hinton, the English psychologist-turned-computer scientist whose work on neural networks in the 1980s set the stage for the explosion in AI capabilities over the last decade. Hinton wanted to speak to deliver a message to the world: he is afraid of the technology he helped create.

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