‘a Race It Might Be Impossible To Stop’: How Worried Should We Be About Ai?

Geoffrey Hinton, a British scientist, recently left Google after 10 years of working on machine learning, expressing his fears about the direction the technology is heading. This news has caused a stir in the tech industry, which is currently in the grip of an ‘irrational exuberance’ for Generative AI, such as chatbots and LLMs. More than 27,000 people have signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause in the development of the technology, citing the potential for a profound change in the history of life on Earth.