AI have to be under strict restrictions, Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and cognitive psychologist known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI".

Hinton is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google Brain and the University of Toronto before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the many risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.[9][10] In 2017, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto During his Nobel Prize banquet speech and subsequent interviews in December 2024, Hinton emphasized that AI is no longer a distant threat but a current, rapidly accelerating issue that demands immediate global regulation. His warnings included:

1. Existential Threat:
	He stated there is a 10 to 20 per cent chance AI could lead
	to human extinction within the next three decades, and we currently have no idea
	how to control systems smarter than ourselves.
2. Prioritizing Profit over Safety:
	Hinton criticized big tech companies for lobbying against regulation and
	prioritizing short-term profits over investing adequately in safety research.
3. Immediate Dangers: 
	He highlighted current harms, such as AI-powered
	misinformation campaigns that create societal echo chambers, mass government
	surveillance, and the use of AI for sophisticated cyberattacks and phishing
	scams.
4. Autonomous Weapons: 
	A major concern is the development of lethal
	autonomous weapons that can decide who to kill without human oversight, which he
	fears will make wars more likely. 
5. Mass Unemployment:
	He predicted that AI will
	lead to "massive unemployment" in intellectual labor and widen the gap between
	the rich and the poor if governments do not intervene to share the benefits
	equitably.

Hinton, who left his job at Google in 2023 specifically so he could speak freely about these dangers without corporate constraints, has made it his mission to alert the public and pressure governments to act.