{"id":162009,"date":"2025-11-04T08:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162009\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:59:10","slug":"artificial-intelligence-elon-musk-will-get-richer-many-others-will-be-unemployed-godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-warns-of-dark-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162009\/","title":{"rendered":"artificial intelligence: ‘Elon Musk will get richer, many others will be unemployed’: \u2018Godfather of AI\u2019 Geoffrey Hinton warns of dark future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Computer scientist and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton<\/a> as doubled down on his warnings about how artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) will affect the labour market, issuing a stark warning about the future of work. Hinton has said that artificial intelligence may wipe out millions of jobs but also emphasised that real danger doesn’t lie with the technology but how the society wants to deploy it. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is not ultimately due to AI itself,\u201d Hinton said. \u201cIt\u2019s due to how we structure our society and our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In an interview with Bloomberg TV\u2019s Wall Street Week on Friday, Geoffrey Hinton, whose work has earned him a Nobel Prize and the moniker \u201cgodfather of AI,\u201d warned that as AI evolution accelerates, tech moguls like Elon Musk<\/a> will make more money but millions of workers are at the risk of losing their jobs to automation.
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\u201cI think the big companies are betting on it causing massive job replacement by AI, because that\u2019s where the big money is going to be,\u201d he warned. The four big tech giants- \u2014Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon\u2014are expected to boost capital expenditures to $420 billion next fiscal year from $360 billion this year, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

When asked if such investments can pay off without destroying jobs, Hinton replied, \u201cI believe that it can\u2019t. I believe that to make money you\u2019re going to have to replace human labor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AI risks extend beyond technologyIn an interview with Bloomberg Wall Street, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton said artificial intelligence is not inherently dangerous, but its uncontrolled growth could cause serious social disruption. He compared the potential risks of AI to a \u201cChernobyl moment,\u201d referring to the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine that led to widespread radiation and casualties.
Hinton said the comparison shows how unregulated technological progress can trigger sudden and devastating effects on society. He warned that AI\u2019s risks go beyond the technology itself and are tied to how society is structured.
\u201cThe problem isn\u2019t AI \u2014 it\u2019s the way society is organised,\u201d Hinton said. \u201cPeople like Musk will get richer, while many others lose their jobs \u2014 and he won\u2019t care. This isn\u2019t an AI problem; it\u2019s a societal problem.\u201d Geoffrey Hinton made similar remarks in September when he told The Financial Times that AI will \u201ccreate massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits,\u201d attributing it to the capitalist system.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not like nuclear weapons, which are only good for bad things,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s a difficult decision, because it can do tremendous good in health care and education. It\u2019ll do tremendous good, and in fact if you think about it increasing productivity in many, many industries, that should be good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem ultimately is not owing to AI itself, but \u201con how we organize society,\u201d Hinton added. He argued that AI is being used primarily to cut labor costs rather than to enhance human potential or reduce inequality. \u201cIf we continue to use AI to increase profits for the few, we\u2019re going to end up in a very bad place,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

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How to mitigate the risks?Geoffrey Hinton called for bold policy measures such as universal basic income, stronger labor protections, and a rethinking of how society values work in an AI-driven economy in a bid to reduce the risks of AI. He also stressed the need for global cooperation to ensure that future superintelligent AI systems align with human values.<\/p>\n

Hinton\u2019s remarks come amid growing public concern about AI\u2019s social impact, as companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic compete to develop increasingly advanced models. While some experts warn about long-term existential threats, Hinton said the immediate dangers of unchecked automation are just as serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Computer scientist and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton as doubled down on his warnings about how artificial intelligence (AI)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,70985,93855,93857,289,290,18,1647,3839,93856,93858,93859,3844,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-162009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-impact-on-jobs","10":"tag-ai-job-displacement","11":"tag-ai-wipe-out-millions-of-jobs","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-elon-musk","16":"tag-geoffrey-hinton","17":"tag-geoffrey-hinton-ai-warning","18":"tag-geoffrey-hinton-news","19":"tag-geoffrey-hinton-warning-on-ai","20":"tag-godfather-of-ai","21":"tag-ie","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115490610615940436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}