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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern UK technology editor

Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk and White House seeking my help, says ‘godfather of AI’

Geoffrey Hinton, the scientist who until very recently worked for Google and who now is warning of the dangers of AI.
Geoffrey Hinton, the scientist who until very recently worked for Google and who now is warning of the dangers of AI. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

The man often touted as the godfather of artificial intelligence will be responding to requests for help from Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk and the White House, he says, just days after quitting Google to warn the world about the risk of digital intelligence.

Dr Geoffrey Hinton, 75, won computer science’s highest honour, the Turing award, in 2018 for his work on “deep learning”, along with Meta’s Yann Lecun and the University of Montreal’s Yoshua Bengio.

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