Former OpenAI safety researcher brands pace of AI development ‘terrifying’; The Guardian, January 28, 2025

Dan Milmo Global technology editor, The Guardian ; Former OpenAI safety researcher brands pace of AI development ‘terrifying’

"A former safety researcher at OpenAI says he is “pretty terrified” about the pace of development in artificial intelligence, warning the industry is taking a “very risky gamble” on the technology.

Steven Adler expressed concerns about companies seeking to rapidly develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), a theoretical term referring to systems that match or exceed humans at any intellectual task."

‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years; The Guardian, December 27, 2024

Dan Milmo, The Guardian; ‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years

"The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a “godfather” of artificial intelligence has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warning the pace of change in the technology is “much faster” than expected.

Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work in AI, said there was a “10% to 20%” chance that AI would lead to human extinction within the next three decades...

Hinton is one of the three “godfathers of AI” who have won the ACM AM Turing award – the computer science equivalent of the Nobel prize – for their work. However, one of the trio, Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, has played down the existential threat and has said AI “could actually save humanity from extinction”."