Does the 'Godfather of AI' think he's created a monster?: 'A little bit. Yes'

Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist who left his post at Google this month to sound the alarm about AI’s threat to humanity, says he knows he’s scaring people with his predictions. He hopes he’s scaring politicians into doing something. In a wide-ranging interview with guest host Robyn Bresnahan, Hinton also offers some hope: Humanity has survived some big threats before, like nuclear weapons, but only by taking them seriously and getting to work on solutions.