Geoffrey Hinton
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And then there's one thing where their interests are definitely aligned and they will cooperate, which is preventing AI from taking over from people.
If the Chinese figured out how you could prevent AI from ever wanting to take over, from ever wanting to take control away from people, they would immediately tell the Americans.
Because they don't want AI taking control away from people in America either.
We're all in the same boat when it comes to that.
It is.
It's exactly that.
And we'll cooperate to try and avoid that.
I think maybe the cockroaches would be.
It does complicate it a lot, and I find it very comforting that it's obvious that Trump doesn't actually believe in God.
I think we need to recognize at this point that we have a religion.
We call it science.
Now, it does differ from the other religions, and the way it differs is it's right.
Just a little correction.
There are a whole bunch of people birthed AI.
In particular, the back propagation algorithm was reinvented by David Rumelhart, who got a nasty brain disease and died young.
But he doesn't get enough credit.
If I had to bet on one lot of people, it would probably be Germany, Google.
But I used to work for Google, so don't take me too seriously about that.
I have a vested interest in them winning.
Anthropic might win.