{"id":202669,"date":"2024-12-28T18:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/godfather-of-ai-shortens-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years"},"modified":"2024-12-28T18:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T00:02:57","slug":"godfather-of-ai-shortens-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/godfather-of-ai-shortens-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Godfather of AI\u2019 shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/godfather-of-ai-shortens-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/02\/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-quits-google-warns-dangers-of-machine-learning\">\u201cgodfather\u201d of artificial intelligence<\/a> has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warning the pace of change in the technology is \u201cmuch faster\u201d than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/oct\/08\/nobel-prize-physics-john-hopfield-geoffrey-hinton-machine-learning\">Nobel prize in physics for his work in AI<\/a>, said there was a \u201c10% to 20%\u201d chance that AI would lead to human extinction within the next three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a \u201cgodfather\u201d of artificial intelligence has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warning the pace of change in the technology is \u201cmuch faster\u201d than expected. Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202669","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}