{"id":18007,"date":"2023-05-30T17:32:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=18007"},"modified":"2023-05-30T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:32:39","slug":"listened-to-godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-warns-of-the-existential-threat-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/listened-to-godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-warns-of-the-existential-threat-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Listened to: \u201cGodfather of AI\u201d Geoffrey Hinton Warns of the \u201cExistential Threat\u201d of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y6Sgp7y178k\">\u201cGodfather of AI\u201d Geoffrey Hinton Warns of the \u201cExistential Threat\u201d of AI | Amanpour and Company &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s a very different threat from many other threats, which also severe.<br \/>\nSo they include these things like robots taking away jobs.<br \/>\nIn a decent society, that would be great.<br \/>\nIt would mean everything got more productive and everyone was better off.<br \/>\nBut the danger is that it&#8217;ll make the rich richer and the poor poorer.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s not AI&#8217;s fault.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how we organize society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following up on <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/listened-bbc-radio-4-word-of-mouth-chatbots\/#comment-223910\">comment and links<\/a> from Dan Kelleher. I listened to this video. Quite a different take from Professor Bender&#8217;s. A different set of warnings and problems. The quote above is not just about the dangers that Geoffrey Hinton discusses, but I think is applicable to many technology problems, <em>In a decent society, that would be great<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGodfather of AI\u201d Geoffrey Hinton Warns of the \u201cExistential Threat\u201d of AI | Amanpour and Company &#8211; YouTube That&#8217;s a very different threat from many other threats, which also severe. So they include these things like robots taking away jobs. In a decent society, that would be great. It would mean everything got more productive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660,953],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-micro","7":"category-posse","8":"kind-note","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-4Gr","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18026,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions\/18026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18007"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=18007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}