The 'Godfather of AI' says it's not 'unreasonable' to believe there's a 10% chance the technology will end humanity
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Brent D. Griffiths
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'Godfather of AI' says it's not unreasonable to believe there's a 10% chance the tech will end humanity
Geoffrey Hinton says it's difficult to estimate if AI will kill all humans, but "it would be very foolish to say there was like a 1% chance."
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Hinton estimates 10% chance AI kills humanity within a decade via recursive self-improvement, compressed from 30-50 year estimates. Leading researchers' >10% existential risk concerns reshape enterprise governance and foundation model adoption decisions.
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