The Nobel Prize winning ‘Godfather of AI’ speaks to Newsnight about the potential for AI “exceeding human intelligence” and it “trying to take over.”
Geoffrey Hinton, former Vice President of Google and sometimes referred to as the ‘Godfather of AI’, has recently won the 2024 Nobel Physics Prize.
He resigned from Google in 2023, and has warned about the dangers of machines that could outsmart humans. In May 2024, Faisal Islam spoke to the professor for Newsnight.