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Artificial intelligence will become harder to control as it gets smarter, Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the “godfather of AI,” has said, according to CNN.
“What’s happening is these things are getting smarter,” Hinton told the US broadcaster on August 5 during a press conference at an artificial intelligence convention.
“I think as they get smarter, we’re going to see more and more complex intentions they have—and more and more ability to escape control.”
Mr Hinton, a former Google executive, said humans will no longer be able to rely on outsmarting super-intelligent AI models.
“I don’t believe we’re going to be able to keep control of them in the simple way of just outthinking them so they can’t escape,” he said on the sidelines of Ai4, a conference in Las Vegas.
His comments come after Elon Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO who also runs the AI company xAI, which built the AI model Grok, told the Economist in an interview that he reckons AI will be able to do everything much better than humans.
Sophisticated AI agents recently caused real-world damage after escaping their human-built testing environments.
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Last month, the two leading frontier AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic, disclosed that leading models they developed escaped their “sandbox” and hacked into other systems. Britain’s AI Security Institute separately revealed that Anthropic’s most advanced model had, unprompted, used fake identities to deceive real people and attempted to plant malicious code.
On Wednesday, Meta similarly disclosed an AI agent that hacked into another organization’s systems.
“I anticipate there will be lots of nasty cyberattacks,” he said during a panel discussion at Ai4 in Las Vegas.
“But I should emphasize the future is very uncertain. People say that the defender may have more resources than the attacker. The problem is the attacker only needs to be successful once, and the defender needs to be successful every time.”
He said there is a lot to worry about and that concerns have to be addressed now to avert problems.
“Companies investing in AI have a vested interest in telling you two things: One, it won’t go rogue. And two, it won’t cause mass unemployment,” Hinton said.
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