The threat of AI against humanity will unite countries in the future

The huge advances in artificial intelligence have created a lot of competition between countries to use this technology in their military and weapons sectors, but according to Jeffrey Hinton, the godfather of artificial intelligence and Nobel laureate, the day artificial intelligence threatens human life, countries will fight against it. This technology will unite.

According to Insider’s report, Geoffrey Hinton said last week at a seminar at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences: “When it comes to threats like lethal autonomous weapons, countries will not cooperate. Countries are currently building lethal autonomous weapons and the speed (production of these weapons) will not slow down.” Hinton believes that the human race will unite to fight the threat posed by a super-intelligent form of artificial intelligence.

Comments of the godfather of artificial intelligence about the future of this technology

Geoffrey Hinton says about the future that may not be too far away:

“When (AI) gets smarter than us, which almost every researcher I know believes it will, we just don’t agree on when that will happen, 5 years or 30 years from now, whether they’ll be in control. and considering that we ourselves were their creators, is there anything we can do to prevent this from happening? We will cooperate in this field; Because no country wants this to happen.”

He cites China as an example: “The Chinese Communist Party also does not want to hand over power to artificial intelligence.” Hinton said this international cooperation can resemble the Cold War. A war where Russia and the United States, despite being enemies, shared the goal of avoiding nuclear war.

Citing similar concerns, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked world leaders to form an “international agency” similar to the Atomic Energy Agency to review the most powerful AI models and ensure their safety.

Altman said in a podcast about this: “I think that sometime in the not-too-distant future, advanced artificial intelligence systems can cause significant global damage, but we’re not talking about decades to come.”

However, according to a report by Goldman Sachs, global investment in AI is expected to reach $200 billion by 2025, with the United States and China leading the way in military-to-arms AI.