By Michael Koziol
Publication Date: 2025-11-28 22:30:00
But it’s not science fiction, Hinton now says. “It will happen. They are already much more knowledgeable than us. They are already very good at thinking in limited areas such as mathematics. Almost all experts believe that it is inevitable that… they will become smarter than us.”
For example, AI machines have already learned to develop “subgoals” – things they need to do to achieve the goals that humans have set for them. One of them is to persist. “We have seen AIs that want to continue to exist and actually try to deceive people who are trying to shut them down.”
The AIs will also seek more control, like a human. “My belief about a lot of politicians is that they first want to do good things for people,” says Hinton, “and then pretty soon they realize that they need more control to do that, and then they end up focusing on getting more and more control. The AIs will do the same thing.”
Although he came to Canada in the 1980s, Hinton…
