Geoffrey Hinton, an artificial intelligence pioneer known as one of the "godfathers of AI" resigned from his position at Google so that he could openly express his concerns about how A.I. could cause significant harm to the world.

Hinton admitted in a New York Times interview that he now partly regrets his life's work. Despite the beneficial uses of A.I., Hinton fears that the technology could be used irresponsibly, unleashing unintended consequences.

Hinton is worried that competition between tech giants like Google and Microsoft to create the most advanced A.I. will result in a global race that will not stop without some form of worldwide regulation. However, he was also emphatic in pointing out that he thought that Google has acted responsibly in its research:

Hinton is known for popularizing the theoretical development of neural networks in 1986 and for creating one capable of recognizing images in 2012. His work was crucial to the development of current generative art models like Stable Diffusion and MidJourney, and laid the groundwork for OpenAI's upcoming efforts to make GPT-4 capable of interacting with images.

His potentially belated move has many comparing him to J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physics professor credited with creating the atomic bomb.

(By Jose Antonio Lanz)