{"id":225967,"date":"2025-11-26T17:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/godfather-of-ai-predicts-total-breakdown-of-society"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:10:37","slug":"godfather-of-ai-predicts-total-breakdown-of-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/godfather-of-ai-predicts-total-breakdown-of-society","title":{"rendered":"Godfather of AI Predicts Total Breakdown of Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/godfather-of-ai-predicts-total-breakdown-of-society.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Hinton, one of the three so-called \u201cgodfathers\u201d of AI, never misses an opportunity to issue foreboding proclamations about the tech he helped create.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EK7uWh3TP3o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EK7uWh3TP3o\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">hour-long public conversation<\/a> with Senator Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University last week, the British computer science laid out all the alarming ways that he forecasts AI will completely upend society for the worst, seemingly leaving little room for human contrivances like optimism. One of the reasons why is that AI\u2019s rapid deployment will be completely unlike technological revolutions in the past, which created new classes of jobs, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who lose their jobs won\u2019t have other jobs to go to,\u201d Hinton said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/godfather-ai-geoffrey-hinton-warns-not-ready-for-whats-coming-2025-11\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">as quoted by <em>Business Insider<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIf AI gets as smart as people \u2014 or smarter \u2014 any job they might do can be done by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Hinton, one of the three so-called \u201cgodfathers\u201d of AI, never misses an opportunity to issue foreboding proclamations about the tech he helped create. During an hour-long public conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University last week, the British computer science laid out all the alarming ways that he forecasts AI will completely upend [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225967","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\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}