“"I’m trying to convey that there is a really serious possibility of something happening. If, for example, you’re told there was a 10% possibility of a bus crashing, you wouldn’t get on the…”
Geoffrey Hinton on Regulation & safety: 7 quotes
What Geoffrey Hinton has said about Regulation & safety — 7 statements in date order, each with the original source.
“"The unique problem with AI is that if it goes wrong, if it takes over, you don’t get a second chance. We can’t say, ‘Well, we lost that time. Let’s rerun the game.’ It’s not like that."”
“There's risks that come from people misusing AI, and that's most of the risks and all of the short-term risks. And then there's risks that come from AI getting super smart and understanding…”
“And over time, it turned out that Sam Altman was much less concerned with safety than with profits. And I think that's unfortunate.”
“very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs”
“I was consulted by people in Downing Street. I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea.”
“One of the ways these systems might escape control is by writing their own computer code to modify themselves. And that's something we need to seriously worry about.”