The Latest Breaking News from Geoffrey Hinton

We are living in troubled times. Too much is happening too fast. People are confused. The Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze has, indeed, popularised a word for it. He calls it a "polycrisis".

A.I.’s three ‘godfathers’ appear to be divided on the technology’s potential.

'Sometimes I think it's as if aliens have landed and people haven't realised because they speak very good English," said Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI' (Artificial Intelligence), who resigned from Google and now fears his godchildren will become "things more intelligent than us, taking control".

Professor Yoshua Bengio believes it's not too late to get artificial intelligence on the right path.

From job losses to mass extinction events, experts are warning that AI technology risks opening a Pandora’s Box of horrors if left unchecked — are they right to be sounding the klaxon? Katie Strick reports

Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the "risk of extinction from AI", which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war.

Warning follows open letter earlier this year that called for a six-month pause on AI development.

The AI programs we are creating could outsmart us and lead to our collective demise, according to the tech industry's leading experts who say it's time to address the threats they pose.

Trailblazers in AI technology, including OpenAI and Google Deepmind, have warned that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity.