‘Godfather of AI’ Warns Tech Will Bring Massive Unemployment: ‘A Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’

The “Godfather of AI” warned that the technology’s rapid adoption will unleash massive unemployment — hurting the poorest people the most if safe scalability is not prioritized. Geoffrey Hinton — a former Google whiz who last year won the Nobel Prize in physics for paving the way for the powerful AI systems we have today — said the CEOs pushing the technology as a possible solution to problems like hunger, poverty and disease are full of it. “What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” Hinton told the Financial Times. “It’s going...