Geoffrey Hinton: “So presently ninety-nine percent (99%) of the money is going into developing [AI] and one percent (1%) is going into safety. People are saying all these things might be dangerous so it should be more like 50/50.”

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Geoffrey Hinton is widely respected as the “Godfather of AI”

“So presently ninety-nine percent (99%) of the money is going into developing [AI] and one percent (1%) is going into safety. People are saying all these things might be dangerous so it should be more like 50/50.” — Geoffrey Hinton

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Don’t Look Up – The Documentary: The Case For AI As An Existential Threat

The big-tech companies are working on safe AI.

While they certainly do not know how, just yet, to make AI safe – “we are doing the best we can” – they think they can solve the problem.

$100s of Billions of Budget allocation: >99% capability and <1% safety.

AND Government regulations are slowly coming! (routinely watered down by industry lobbyists).

Meanwhile, as the tech companies race forward, the current average P(doom) prediction by AI engineers is 40%.