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Godfather of AI: Rogue tech will manipulate people to stop from being switched off

Geoffrey Hinton 60 Minutes Google OpenAI

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The ‘Godfather’ of AI, and one of its biggest critics, believes the technology will soon become smarter than humans and could learn to manipulate them.

Geoffrey Hinton, a former AI engineer at Google, told 60 Minutes he expected artificial intelligence to become self-aware in time, making humans the second most intelligent beings on the planet.

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