The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation | Jonathan Freedland

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Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, resigned his post at Google earlier this month.

Hinton said he had undergone a “s Microsoft p” in his view of AI’s ability to outstrip humanity.

We live in a world where you can email a DNA string consisting of a series of letters to a lab that will produce proteins on demand.

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