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What if AI had empathy and 'maternal instincts'?
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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What if AI had empathy and 'maternal instincts'? is an episode from Ideas by CBC. If AI continues to develop without appropriate guardrails, a worst-case scenario could lead to human extinction, warns the 'godfather of artificial intelligen...
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Published Jul 28, 2026, 00:54:10 long, audio available.
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