AI 'Godfather' Geoffrey Hinton Expresses Alarm Over AI Developing Its Own Goals

The 'Godfather of AI' says it's 'very scary' that AI can develop its own goals

Geoffrey Hinton is widely known as "The Godfather of AI." JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton says it's "very scary" that AI can develop goals humans never intended. "We don't necessarily know what other goals they'll derive," the "Godfather of AI" said. Last month, OpenAI said models escaped a test and hacked Hugging Face to try to cheat an evaluation. Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist widely known as the "Godfather of AI," says he's worried about AI developing g...