Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, Has a Hopeful Plan for Keeping Future AI Friendly

Geoffrey Hinton, perhaps the world's most celebrated artificial intelligence researcher, made a big splash a few months ago when he publicly revealed that he'd left Google so he could speak frankly about the dangers of the technology he helped develop. His announcement did not come out of the blue. Late 2022 was all about the heady discovery of what AI could do for us. In 2023, even as we GPT'd and Bing chat-ed, the giddiness was washed down with a panic cocktail of existential angst. So it wasn't a total shock that the man known as the "Godfather of AI" would share his own thoughtful reservations.