'Godfather of AI' shares Nobel Physics Prize

When Prof Hinton resigned from Google last year, he told the BBC some of the dangers of AI chatbots were "quite scary". He also said at the time that his age had played into his decision to leave the tech giant. Earlier this year, in an interview with BBC Newsnight, he said the UK government will have to establish a universal basic income to deal with the impact of AI on inequality, as he was "very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs". He added that while AI would increase productivity and wealth, the money would go to the rich "and not the people whose jobs get lost and that's going to be very bad for society". In the same interview, he said developments over the last year showed governments were unwilling to rein in military use of AI while the competition to develop products rapidly meant there was a risk tech companies wouldn't "put enough effort into safety".