They’ll convince us not to turn it off. AGIs aren’t just gonna broadcast their evil intentions. They’re smart. We’re not gonna turn them off if we never find out they’re evil until it’s too late.
Scott Pelley interviewing Geoffrey Hinton 10-8, 10-8-2023; The English Canadian Geoffrey Hinton — together with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun — are referred to as the “Godfathers of AI”. Those three researchers have won the 2018 Turing Award, known as the ‘Nobel Prize of computing,’ for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI). From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Hinton is now Chief Scientific Adviser of The Vector Institute and a University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. Hinton received a Bachelor’s degree in experimental psychology from Cambridge University and a Doctoral degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. Scott Pelley is a correspondent of “60 Minutes”. ; ""Godfather of Artificial Intelligence" Geoffrey Hinton on the promise, risks of advanced AI", Cbs News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoffrey-hinton-ai-dangers-60-minutes-transcript/, Accessed 10-9-2023 AQ
Scott Pelley: What do you say to someone who might argue, "If the systems become malevolent, just turn them off"?
Geoffrey Hinton: They will be able to manipulate people, right? And these will be very good at convincing people 'cause they'll have learned from all the novels that were ever written, all the books by Machiavelli, all the political connivances, they'll know all that stuff. They'll know how to do it.