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The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI

Geoffrey Hinton warns AI may develop survival and control goals threatening humanity and proposes embedding caring maternal instincts into AI as a vital safeguard, citing a 10% to 20% extinction risk.

  • Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, stated that humanity should design AI with "maternal instincts" to ensure protection against superintelligence.
  • Hinton predicted a 10% chance of AI causing human extinction within the next 30 years, highlighting the risk to white-collar jobs before blue-collar ones.
  • Hinton pointed out that without AI programmed to care for humanity, it may seek to replace us, stating, "If it's not going to parent me, it's going to replace me."
  • Hinton advocates for international collaboration to prioritize developing AI systems that protect humanity rather than replace it.
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The ‘godfather of AI’ says this is only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI

Geoffrey Hinton, the "godfather of AI," fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity. He's a computer scientist and a former Google executive.

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By Matt Egan, CNN Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” fears the technology he helped create could wipe out humanity, and says tech bros are taking the wrong approach to preventing it. Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and former Google executive, has warned in the past that there’s a 10% to 20% chance AI will wipe out humans. On Tuesday, he expressed doubt about what tech companies are doing to ensure humans remain “d…

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WAAY-TV broke the news in Huntsville, United States on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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