‘Godfather of AI’ says AI is like a cute tiger cub—unless you know it won’t turn on you, you should worry

• AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is warning that artificial intelligence could one day outsmart and control humanity. He says that a profit-driven AI arms race may be speeding up the danger.

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the "godfathers of AI," is warning that the technology he helped create could take control of humans.

In an interview with CBS Saturday Morning, Hinton said AI had developed even faster than he had originally expected, citing the acceleration of AI agents as a particularly scary development.