US lawmakers may have only about a year to put meaningful guardrails around artificial intelligence before AI advances to the point where it could become “out of control,” warned the “Godfather of AI.”
Speaking after a briefing with members of Congress on Wednesday, Geoffrey Hinton said the window for regulating advanced AI has narrowed dramatically as the technology develops faster than many researchers expected.
“Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” Hinton said when asked how long policymakers have to act.
He added that expectations for when superintelligent AI could emerge have accelerated dramatically, with estimates shrinking from…
