Bernie Sanders: “Dr. Geoffrey Hinton recently told me that it was only a…”

“But some of us remember that scene in that great 1968 science fiction film, 2001 A Space Odyssey, in which HAL, the super intelligent computer that controlled the spaceship, rebels against its human masters today as AI makes rapid progress. Dr. Geoffrey Hinton recently told me that it was only a matter of time before AI becomes smarter than human beings. What's the impact of that? Does that raise the possibility that humans will actually lose their ability to control the planet? And if that becomes a possibility, how do we stop that extraordinary threat?” (01:27–13:19)

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