The Latest Breaking News from Geoffrey Hinton

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".

The AI programs we are creating could outsmart us and lead to our collective demise, according to the tech industry's leading experts who say it's time to address the threats they pose.

Trailblazers in AI technology, including OpenAI and Google Deepmind, have warned that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity.

The OpenAI CEO is one of hundreds of experts to warn against artificial intelligence's existential risk to humanity.

Arjun Narayan, now the safety chief at a news aggregation platform, thinks that A.I. output is largely a "black box" that can be hard to make sense of.

The challenge seems daunting. But we have overcome terrifying dangers before, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Recently, Geoffrey Hinton, the visionary expert who was at the heart of so much innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning, left Google. In an interview with CNN, he said, “I’m just a scientist who suddenly realized that these things are getting smarter than us. I want to sort of…

A.I. is “too important not to regulate well,” Pichai wrote, while Altman suggested that a body like the IAEA would soon be needed to oversee A.I.