‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI
Geoffrey Hinton gave the United States Senate a deadline on Wednesday, and it was shorter than the legislative calendar.
“Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he said, about how long Congress has to put guardrails around artificial intelligence.
He was speaking at a closed, hour-long briefing at the Capitol convened by Senator Bernie Sanders, NBC News reported.
Because it was a briefing rather than a hearing, there is no transcript, no sworn testimony, and no written submission; the account rests on what attendees described afterward.
His case, as reported, rested on recursion and on speed.
“AI has now reached the point where AI is designing better AI,” he said, adding that it “is going to get out of control unless we do something”.
Researchers who once put transformative systems thirty or fifty years out, he said, now talk about a few.
He described the breach...
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