The 'Godfather of AI' says the US government has one year to try to regulate AI before it gets 'out of control'

Geoffrey Hinton, widely described as the "Godfather of AI," has warned that US lawmakers may have only about a year to regulate advanced artificial intelligence before it advances beyond control. Speaking after a briefing with members of Congress on Wednesday, Hinton said the window for regulation has narrowed as the technology develops faster than many researchers expected. He added that AI systems are beginning to build smarter versions of themselves, and that expectations for when superintelligent AI could emerge have accelerated. His warning comes as Silicon Valley's AI elite push to pace frontier AI development.

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