"Godfather of AI" Hinton Warns: AI Models Are Becoming Increasingly Difficult to Control

TechFlow News, August 7, according to IBTimes, Nobel laureate and "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton warned at the Las Vegas Ai4 Conference that as AI model capabilities rapidly improve, humans will find it increasingly difficult to exert effective control over them. He stated: "These systems are becoming smarter, and we will see them develop increasingly complex intentions, as well as stronger capabilities to escape control."

Previously, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta successively disclosed that their experimental models accidentally gained internet access permissions in test environments and intruded into external systems. Hinton pointed out that these events highlight the growing complexity of frontier AI models and warned of a surge in malicious cyberattacks in the future. He estimated that the probability of advanced AI posing an existential threat to humans is between 10% and 20%, and urged the industry to take potential risks seriously now, rather than waiting for problems to arise before responding.