Godfather of AI worried over AI risks

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Hinton says AI "more urgent threat" than climate change.

Godfather of AI worried over AI risks
Artificial intelligence could pose a "more urgent" threat to humanity than climate change, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters in an interview on Friday.  Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the "godfathers of AI", recently announced he had quit Alphabet after a decade at the firm, ...

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