AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says we must convince AI that it’s our mother

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is afraid that powerful AI could eventually wipe out humanity, and he has a striking idea for how to prevent that from happening. If we embed “maternal instincts” in AI now, we could ensure it does not want to get rid of us, Hinton said on Thursday at the Ontario Centre of Innovation’s DiscoveryX conference in Toronto. “We need to think of AIs as our mothers and us as the babies.” Geoffrey Hinton “We need to think of AIs as our mothers and us as the babies,” Hinton sai