Geoffrey Hinton urges building “maternal instincts” into AI to prevent human extinction, as leading experts debate the path to safe superintelligence. Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and often called the “godfather of AI,” has sounded another stark warning: humanity’s survival may depend on building compassion into artificial intelligence before it surpasses us. Speaking at the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Hinton said the current approach of making AI “submissive” to humans will fail because superintelligent systems will inevitably outsmart their creators. “That’s not going to work. They’re going to be much smarter than us,” Hinton cautioned. “They’ll have all … Continue reading The ‘Godfather of AI’ Warns: Only Compassionate AI Can Save Humanity