{"id":89208,"date":"2025-08-17T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89208\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:35:10","slug":"geoffrey-hinton-warns-ai-could-destroy-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89208\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could destroy humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google scientist warns AI has a 20 per cent chance of wiping out humanity.<\/p>\n<p id=\"AIpioneer\">AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/technology\/tech-news\/well-be-history-godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-says-ai-might-destroy-humanity-the-one-thing-that-could-save-us-11755230126298.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">has warned<\/a> that AI could one day wipe out humanity if its growth is unchecked.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Speakingat\">Speaking at the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/updates\/google-works-to-curb-geminis-endless-self-criticism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Google<\/a> executive estimated a 10 to 20 percent chance of such an outcome and criticised the approach taken by technology leaders.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Heargued\">He argued that efforts to keep humans \u2018dominant\u2019 over AI will fail once systems become more intelligent than their creators. According to Hinton, powerful AI will inevitably develop goals such as survival and control, making it increasingly difficult for people to restrain its influence.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Inan\">In an interview with CNN, Hinton compared the potential future to a parent-child relationship, noting that AI systems may manipulate humans just as easily as an adult can bribe a child. <\/p>\n<p id=\"Hesuggested\">He suggested giving AI \u2018maternal instincts\u2019 to prevent disaster so that the technology genuinely cares about human well-being.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Hintonoften\">Hinton, often called the \u2018Godfather of AI\u2019 for his pioneering work in neural networks, cautioned that society risks creating beings that will ultimately outsmart and overpower us without embedding such safeguards.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Wouldyou\">Would you like to learn more about\u00a0AI, tech and digital diplomacy?\u00a0If so,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diplomacy.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ask our Diplo chatbot<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Google scientist warns AI has a 20 per cent chance of wiping out humanity. AI pioneer Geoffrey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-89208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}