Regulations needed to stop AI being used for ‘bad things’ – Geoffrey Hinton

Professor Geoffrey Hinton said ‘we need to be very careful about the development of AI’. Picture: Alamy/PA

British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said we need to be “very careful” and “very thoughtful” about the development of artificial intelligence (AI) which he says is a “potentially very dangerous technology”.

Professor Hinton, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics this year, said the pace of change in the area of AI is “much faster” than he expected and there has not been enough time to complete the research he believes is required.