Dr Geoffrey Hinton – the man considered the ‘godfather’ of artificial intelligence – has stepped down from Google so he can speak freely about the risks he believes it poses. Hinton is credited with creating the self-teaching technology that forms the basis of current-day AI systems like ChatGPT and Bard. After working at Google for more than a decade, Dr Hinton said a part of him now regrets his life’s work. What’s keeping him up at night is his concern that the technology is progressing so fast that AI systems could soon be more intelligent than humans and that they could do more harm than good, especially if they end up in the hands of “bad actors”. And while stressing he wasn’t criticising Google, who he said had been “very responsible”, he’s concerned about the ramifications of the tech race to develop AI. Just in time for a new AI development in mind-reading…