'It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things'
A computer scientist often dubbed "the godfather of artificial intelligence" has quit his job at Google to speak out about the dangers of the technology, US media has reported.
Geoffrey Hinton, who created a foundation technology for AI systems, told The New York Times that advancements made in the field posed "profound risks to society and humanity".
"Look at how it was five years ago and how it is now," he was quoted as saying in the piece, which was published today.
"Take the difference and propagate it forwards. That's scary."
Mr Hinton said that competition between tech giants was pushing companies to release new AI technologies at dangerous speeds, risking jobs and spreading misinformation.
"It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things," he told the NY Times.
In 2022, Google and OpenAI - the start-up behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT - started building systems using much larger amounts of data than before.
Mr Hinton told the Times he believed that these systems were eclipsing human intelligence in some ways because of the amount of data they were analysing.
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