pioneer of artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hintonhas echoed concerns about AI raised by the likes Elon Muskand said the threat could be “more urgent” than climate change.

What happened: During an interview with Reuters, Hinton, also known as the “Godfather Of AI”, explained that the Risks that AI poses to humanity could be more urgent than those of climate change.

Hinton recently left alphabet inc GOOD Google subsidiary Google saying he wanted to speak more freely about the risks of the technology.

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“I don’t want to discount climate change. I don’t want to say, ‘You shouldn’t be worried about climate change.’ That’s also a big risk,” Hinton said. “But I think that might end up becoming more urgent.”

According to Hinton, while halting carbon emissions to address climate change is a simple recommendation, it’s unclear what steps should be taken to address the AI ​​threat.

“I’m in the camp that thinks this is an existential risk and it’s close enough that we should be working very hard now and spending a lot of resources trying to figure out what we can do about it,” he said during the interview.

Why it matters: For the Unversed Twitter CEO musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak were among the over 1000 signatories of an “open letter” that called for a six-month halt to the further development of AI systems with superior capabilities GPT-4 by OpenAI.

Meanwhile, the godfather of virtual reality, Jaron LanierHe slammed people’s concerns about AI taking over the world, saying it only happens in movies like The Matrix. However, he has not dismissed it Concerns related to AI in its current state.

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