The Latest Breaking News from Geoffrey Hinton

The challenge seems daunting. But we have overcome terrifying dangers before, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Recently, Geoffrey Hinton, the visionary expert who was at the heart of so much innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning, left Google. In an interview with CNN, he said, “I’m just a scientist who suddenly realized that these things are getting smarter than us. I want to sort of…

A.I. is “too important not to regulate well,” Pichai wrote, while Altman suggested that a body like the IAEA would soon be needed to oversee A.I.

Labour for the Long Term says UK risks falling even further into dependence on US tech firms

One of the world's leading A.I. experts says the race by tech companies for A.I. supremacy is 'unhealthy,' and that breaking the cycle won't be easy.

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool, but some experts believe it poses a real threat to humanity

The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology “becoming more intelligent than us”. His fear is that AI will one day succeed in “manipulating people to do what it wants”.

The Google CEO thinks A.I. could have a massive impact on the labor market—he also thinks A.I. is the most "profound" thing that humanity is working on.

Vladimir Putin, of all people, was the first world leader to grasp what a big deal artificial intelligence was for geopolitics. “Whoever becomes the leader,” he warned a group of schoolchildren more than five years ago, “will become the ruler of the world.” What, back then, seemed even to cutting-edge…

IBM’s chief commercial officer has some positive yet precautionary advice for managers that want to keep their job.

Experts are in the dark about the future of A.I., but it may already be a runaway train.