{"id":128324,"date":"2021-09-30T01:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T08:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/former-google-exec-warns-that-ai-researchers-are-creating-god"},"modified":"2021-09-30T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T08:22:17","slug":"former-google-exec-warns-that-ai-researchers-are-creating-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/former-google-exec-warns-that-ai-researchers-are-creating-god","title":{"rendered":"Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are \u201cCreating God\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-google-exec-warns-that-ai-researchers-are-creating-god3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a former Google executive, the singularity is coming. And, what\u2019s more, he says that it poses a major threat to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Mo Gawdat, formerly the Chief Business Officer for Google\u2019s moonshot organization, which was called Google X at the time, issued his warning in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/can-this-man-save-the-world-from-artificial-intelligence-329dd6zvd?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=cc&utm_medium=branded_social\" class=\"\">interview with <em>The Times<\/em><\/a>. In it, he said that he believes that artificial general intelligence (AGI), the sort of all-powerful, sentient AI seen in science fiction like Skynet from \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/human-level-artificial-intelligence-agi\" class=\"\">is inevitable<\/a> \u2014 and that once it\u2019s here, humanity may very well find itself staring down an apocalypse brought forth by godlike machines.<\/p>\n<p>Gawdat told <em>The Times<\/em> that he had his frightening revelation while working with AI developers at Google X who were building robot arms capable of finding and picking up a small ball. After a period of slow progress, Gawdat said that one arm grabbed the ball and seemed to hold it up to the researchers in a gesture that, to him, seemed like it was showing off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a former Google executive, the singularity is coming. And, what\u2019s more, he says that it poses a major threat to humanity. Mo Gawdat, formerly the Chief Business Officer for Google\u2019s moonshot organization, which was called Google X at the time, issued his warning in a new interview with The Times. In it, he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}