“Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4 (ESV).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

Geoffrey Hinton, a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist known as the “Godfather of AI,” resigned from Google due to his concerns about AI.

The veteran computer scientist is alarmed that AI tools often exhibit unexpected behavior as it teaches itself new information. He said,

The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people… most people thought it was way off… I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.