What if AI had empathy and 'maternal instincts'?

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Jul 28, 202600:54:10Society & Culture

If AI continues to develop without appropriate guardrails, a worst-case scenario could lead to human extinction, warns the 'godfather of artificial intelligence' Geoffrey Hinton. But the Nobel Prize winner has a solution...

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