PANews reported on December 30 that according to The Guardian, Geoffrey Hinton, the "godfather of artificial intelligence" who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on artificial intelligence, warned that the probability of AI causing human extinction in the next 30 years is between 10% and 20%. He pointed out that the development speed of AI technology is "far beyond expectations" and AI systems that surpass human intelligence may be difficult to control.
Hinton called on the government to strengthen supervision of AI technology, arguing that the profit-seeking motives of enterprises alone cannot guarantee the safe development of AI. He stressed that a large number of experts in the field of AI predict that AI systems that are smarter than humans will appear in the next 20 years, which poses a major threat to humans.
In addition, Yann LeCun, chief scientist of Meta and also known as the "Godfather of AI", holds a different view and believes that AI may save mankind from extinction.
