{"id":163184,"date":"2023-05-02T03:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/ai-pioneer-quits-google-to-warn-about-the-technologys-dangers"},"modified":"2023-05-02T03:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T08:22:23","slug":"ai-pioneer-quits-google-to-warn-about-the-technologys-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/ai-pioneer-quits-google-to-warn-about-the-technologys-dangers","title":{"rendered":"AI pioneer quits Google to warn about the technology\u2019s \u2018dangers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-pioneer-quits-google-to-warn-about-the-technologys-dangers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Hinton, who has been called the \u2018Godfather of AI,\u2019 confirmed Monday that he left his role at Google last week to speak out about the \u201cdangers\u201d of the technology he helped to develop.<\/p>\n<p>Hinton\u2019s pioneering work on neural networks shaped artificial intelligence systems powering many of today\u2019s products. He worked part-time at Google for a decade on the tech giant\u2019s AI development efforts, but he has since come to have concerns about the technology and his role in advancing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn\u2019t done it, somebody else would have,\u201d Hinton told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/01\/technology\/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>, which was first to report his decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Hinton, who has been called the \u2018Godfather of AI,\u2019 confirmed Monday that he left his role at Google last week to speak out about the \u201cdangers\u201d of the technology he helped to develop. Hinton\u2019s pioneering work on neural networks shaped artificial intelligence systems powering many of today\u2019s products. He worked part-time at Google for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163184","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=163184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}