The Latest Breaking News from Geoffrey Hinton

Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton made headlines earlier this year when he raised concerns about the capabilities of AI systems. Speaking to CNN journalist Jake Tapper, Hinton said:

The many uses of AI, in science, in medicine, in daily life are undeniable. What cannot be denied too is that research progresses independent of moral considerations.

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.

Sam Altman, the founder of the revolutionary application Chat-GPT, is touring Europe with a message: AI is changing the world and there are big risks, but also big potential rewards

Stark warning comes as Rishi Sunak prepares to persuade Joe Biden of ‘grand plan’ to control artificial intelligence

AI and machine learning are deployed in several of the medical gadgets and instruments that are in use at present.

More than 300 researchers and industry leaders signed their names to a new statement warning of a potential extinction event.

'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".