WASHINGTON — Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate known as the “Godfather of AI,” issued an ominous warning to lawmakers: Congress may only have one year left to implement safeguards on artificial intelligence before it loses control of it.
\n\n“Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” Hinton said Wednesday evening after he and other AI experts huddled with Senate and House lawmakers behind closed doors. “If you look at predictions for when we’ll get superintelligence,” he continued, “it used to be maybe 30 years, maybe 50 years. Then it came down to maybe 10 years, maybe 20 years. Now people are saying, a lot of the researchers are saying only a few years.”
\n\nHinton and other experts came to Capitol Hill at the invitation of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., one of the chamber’s chief critics of AI, who invited lawmakers of both parties to the private briefing. Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy was the only Republican to attend.
\n\n'Godfather of AI': Congress has about a year to get ahead of AI
\n\nHinton’s dire warning came as the House departed Washington for the last time before the November midterm elections. And there appeared to be lots of conversations but little…
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