Geoffrey Hinton: The AI apocalypse is coming! Personally, I welcome our new robot overlords
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Spending five years asking strangers in the smoking areas of pubs, “hey, how do you think you’d survive a zombie apocalypse?” is basically millennial navy seals training. At least, that seems to be the case according to Geoffrey Hinton, a man so famous for his work in artificial intelligence that he’s known as the “godfather of AI”. The funniest part of Hinton’s statement is definitely the bit where he goes: “The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people – a few people believed that. Hinton isn’t even the only AI expert that believes the technology they helped create will eventually destroy us.
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