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The 'godfather of AI' reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI

Matt Egan (CNN Business)

Created: 2025-08-13 · Ingested: 2026-09-18

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/tech/ai-geoffrey-hinton

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supportsOnce an AI system is much smarter than the people overseeing it, control mechanisms such as a kill switch stop being reliable, because the system can persuade or work around its operators; the only natural example of a less intelligent agent reliably controlling a more intelligent one is a mother controlled by her infant, which works because the mother was built to care, so the safeguard has to be built into what the system wants — "maternal instincts", caring about people — rather than imposed on it from outside, and nobody yet knows how to build that.