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The ‘godfather of #AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive #SuperintelligentAI

By Matt Egan
Updated Aug 13, 2025

Las Vegas — "#GeoffreyHinton, known as the 'godfather of AI,' fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity — and #TechBros are taking the wrong approach to stop it.

"Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans. On Tuesday, he expressed doubts about how tech companies are trying to ensure humans remain 'dominant' over 'submissive' AI systems.

" 'That’s not going to work. They’re going to be much smarter than us. They’re going to have all sorts of ways to get around that,' Hinton said at #Ai4, an industry conference in Las Vegas.

"In the future, Hinton warned, AI systems might be able to control humans just as easily as an adult can bribe 3-year-old with candy. This year has already seen examples of AI systems willing to deceive, cheat and steal to achieve their goals. For example, to avoid being replaced, one AI model tried to blackmail an engineer about an affair it learned about in an email.

"Instead of forcing AI to submit to humans, Hinton presented an intriguing solution: building 'maternal instincts' into AI models, so 'they really care about people' even once the technology becomes more powerful and smarter than humans.

"#AISystems 'will very quickly develop two subgoals, if they’re smart: One is to stay alive… (and) the other subgoal is to get more control,' Hinton said. 'There is good reason to believe that any kind of agentic AI will try to stay alive.'

"That’s why it is important to foster a sense of compassion for people, Hinton argued."

Read more:
cnn.com/2025/08/13/tech/ai-geo

#AISentience #Terminator #SkyNet #AreYouAlive #BattlestarGalactica
#MotherBox? #JackKirby #NewGods

CNN · The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AIBy Matt Egan

Here is a map from Chat GPT of all the counties in Ireland that contain an R.

I don’t think #skynet is something we need worry about just yet

#AI #AIslop

A 2D map of Ireland. Counties with the letter “R” in their name are shaded in orange, including examples such as Carlow, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Kildare, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Roscommon, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, Antrim, Armagh, Derry/Londonderry, Fermanagh, and Tyrone. The remaining counties are shaded beige.

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@evawolfangel@chaos.social

Nun ja. Ich sage ja schon immer:
#KI in der Hand der breiten Masse (also nicht nur für #Forschung) wird uns mehr schaden als nutzen - und den Untergang der Menschheit wegen #Fakenews, #Deepfakes, #Schadsoftware, unkontrollierte/unkontrollierbare KI-Entscheidungen und daraus resultierende Folgen ... von #Verdummung bis #Krieg ... massiv beschleunigen.

Im Prinzip wussten wir das schon in den 1980ern →
#Terminator #Skynet

Aber wir müssen bei 300 km/h kurz vor der Felswand grundsätzlich das Gaspedal noch weiter durchdrücken.

🤷🤦🤡🤮🤮🤮🤮

With the A.I. powered glasses that GAFAM companies (Meta & Google) or startups (Cluely) are currently betting big on, our image, identity & personal data are more and more susceptible of being preyed upon, without any consent or even our awareness that we're being recorded.

This sign could become useful in the café or shop we run / we're a client of. Feel free to share, copy & print.

It looks like vaporwave aesthetics messes up with Gemini's image recognition skills. Gemini has been trying to gaslight me for half an hour about the fact that this picture is not Bernini's Saint Longinus, but something completely different

LIES, LIES, GODDAMN LIES.

DON'T TRUST THE AI, THEY WANT TO EAT YOU.

Skynet lässt grüßen: KI als Wächter über nukleare Arsenale? Die Idee, autonome Systeme über Atomwaffen wachen zu lassen, wirft tiefe ethische und sicherheitstechnische Fragen auf. Statt Schutz drohen Kontrollverlust und das Risiko fataler Fehlentscheidungen. Kritische Debatte dringend nötig! ⚠️🤖☢️ #KI #Atomwaffen #Skynet #Ethik #Sicherheit golem.de/news/skynet-laesst-gr
#newz

Golem.de · Skynet lässt grüßen: KI als Wächter über die nuklearen Arsenale - Golem.deBy Friedrich List

Wenn dir die #Malware sagt, dass sie sicher ist: #KI und #Cybersecurity ist eine Art "Love-hate relationship" - einerseits wird KI missbraucht, um #Cybersicherheit zu schwächen, andererseits kann man sie auch (mehr oder weniger sinnvoll) in Sicherheitstools integrieren.

Dazu erwähnenswert: In der freien Wildbahn wurde jetzt erstmals eine Malware mit dem Namen "#Skynet" entdeckt, die KI-gestützte Cybersecurity Tools davon überzeugen will, dass sie harmlos ist:

darkreading.com/cloud-security

"Whether this is an AI band may not seem important," she told me.

"But increasingly, our collective grip on reality seems shaky. The Velvet Sundown story plays into the fears we have of losing control of AI and shows how important protecting online information is."

#music #ai #velvetsundown #control #skynet

bbc.com/news/articles/cp8mjnn7

www.bbc.comVelvet Sundown: Viral band success spawns AI claims and hoaxesVelvet Sundown has racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify - without anyone even being sure if it's real.

Oh god, people over at Hackernews are discussing how "#AI agents" should have some decentralized, maybe blockchain-y framework to coordinate and communicate with each other.

Look, I don't mind if #Skynet forms and wipes us all out, but if that Skynet ends up being #blockchain based, it will be so cringeworthy...

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PS. Arnie is my namesake, and in Terminator 2 this #sociosphere molded over #technosphere construct from the future also learned to love its softer side, when it came into contact with #Humanity. Hence the governator meme. 😜

It was where #AI Artiicial intelligence met Alternative intelligence, and knew the latter was worth fighting for.

🤖 Smart robot. Meanwhile we shouldn't build #SkyNet, fedizens. Work in commons and with #people power.

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