Geoffrey Hinton warns against racing toward superintelligent AI
Geoffrey Hinton criticizes the rush toward superintelligent AI and argues that financial incentives make company self-regulation insufficient.
Geoffrey Hinton has criticized AI policymaking, saying he does not think Donald Trump understands the technology well and believes he is being poorly advised. Hinton also called it foolish to push toward superintelligent AI before understanding how humans could coexist with it.
He suggested systems more intelligent than people might emerge within the next decade, an estimate rather than a settled timeline. Hinton argued that large financial incentives make it unsafe to rely on companies to regulate themselves, and warned that a race to superintelligence may leave no real winner.