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"Could AI have a goal to destroy us?" "Yes"

"Could AI have a goal to destroy us?" "Yes"

Update: 2025-11-16
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"Godfather of AI" Professor Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize for his early work on machine learning which were the foundations for modern Artificial Intelligence today. He left his role with Google to free him up to talk about his safety concerns around AI. He told Brendan why he thinks AI is now at a point where it can think and understand.

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"Could AI have a goal to destroy us?" "Yes"

"Could AI have a goal to destroy us?" "Yes"

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