The Latest Breaking News from Geoffrey Hinton

TORONTO (CANADA): Geoffrey Hinton, one of the so-called godfathers of artificial intelligence (AI), urged governments on Wednesday to step in and make sure that machines do not take control of society.

Many took the open letter calling for a pause seriously, including its signatories and critics.

We are living in troubled times. Too much is happening too fast. People are confused. The Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze has, indeed, popularised a word for it. He calls it a "polycrisis".

A.I.’s three ‘godfathers’ appear to be divided on the technology’s potential.

Sam Altman, the founder of the revolutionary application Chat-GPT, is touring Europe with a message: AI is changing the world and there are big risks, but also big potential rewards

Stark warning comes as Rishi Sunak prepares to persuade Joe Biden of ‘grand plan’ to control artificial intelligence

AI and machine learning are deployed in several of the medical gadgets and instruments that are in use at present.

More than 300 researchers and industry leaders signed their names to a new statement warning of a potential extinction event.

'Sometimes I think it's as if aliens have landed and people haven't realised because they speak very good English," said Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI' (Artificial Intelligence), who resigned from Google and now fears his godchildren will become "things more intelligent than us, taking control".

Professor Yoshua Bengio believes it's not too late to get artificial intelligence on the right path.

From job losses to mass extinction events, experts are warning that AI technology risks opening a Pandora’s Box of horrors if left unchecked — are they right to be sounding the klaxon? Katie Strick reports