The 'Godfather of AI' says the US government has one year to try to regulate AI before it gets 'out of control'
The "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton warns that the window to regulate advanced AI may be closing rapidly.
Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images The "Godfather of AI" warns lawmakers may have only about a year to regulate advanced AI.
Geoffrey Hinton says AI systems are starting to build smarter versions of itself.
His warning comes as Silicon Valley's AI elite push to pace frontier AI.
US lawmakers may have only about a year to put meaningful guardrails around artificial intelligence before AI advances to the point where it could become "out of control," warned the "Godfather of AI." Speaking after a briefing with members of Congress on Wednesday, Geoffrey Hinton said the window for regulating advanced AI has narrowed dramatically as the technology develops faster than many researchers expected.
"Maybe a year, but not much more than a year," Hinton said when asked how long policymakers have to act.
He added that expectations for when superintelligent AI could emerge have accelerated dramatically, with estimates shrinking from decades to just a few years.
"AI has now reached the point where AI is designing better AI," Hinton said.
"It is going to get out of control unless we do something.
We need to slow down," he said.
On Wednesday, Hinton also pointed to the recent Hugging Face incident, in which a rogue AI agent attacked the open-source AI platform, and called it "a little Chernobyl" that underscored how quickly frontier AI systems are becoming harder to control.
"We shouldn't be developing stuff that might wipe us out," Hinton said, arguing researchers first need to know how to keep advanced AI under control.
The Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist has become increasingly vocal about the risks posed by advanced AI.
In an interview with the BBC last week , Hinton said it was "not unreasonable" to believe there is roughly a 10% chance AI could cause human extinction within the next decade.
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