'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton Rings the Warning Bells
Geoffrey Hinton, one of the foundational figures in AI and a 2023 Nobel laureate in Physics, warns that while AI offers transformative benefits, its rapid advancement poses existential risks—particularly from superintelligent systems that could outpace human control. He argues that curren
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