‘It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things’: Google’s former ‘Godfather of AI’ warns of misuse after quitting tech giant

Is that this century’s take on J. Robert Oppenheimer’s recitation of Hindu scripture “Now have I become death, destroyer of worlds,” after helping to create the atom bomb? One of the so-called “Godfathers of AI,” or artificial intelligence, is voicing his concerns about the runaway potential of the nascent technology.

In an interview with The New York Times, Geoffrey Hinton said that he resigned from Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG GOOGL Google so he could join a chorus of researchers warning on the dangers of AI and its potential misuse,…