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Super-intelligent AI<\/a> will take over within the next three years and kill humans if it is not stopped, the “Godfather of AI”<\/a> will warn ministers.<\/p>\n Prof Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian Nobel laureate known for his work in developing neural networks, will meet government leaders on Friday to outline the “terrifying” scenario.<\/p>\n It was first addressed during the AI Safety Foundation’s Hinton Lectures in Toronto, in which experts said AI could also overpower governments within the next six to 18 months.<\/p>\n Paul Christiano, of the Alignment Research Centre, which studies the rise of AI, warned the audience that “many people would die” as AI assumed control.<\/p>\n “I think there is a high risk of an AI takeover within the next three years, and meaningful risk even in the next six to 12 months,” he said.<\/p>\n “Even if there we don’t die, a takeover is sort of the end of human sovereignty and self-determination and is something we should be working incredibly hard to avoid.<\/p>\n “I think for most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident.”<\/p>\n Prof. Hinton, who unofficially advises the UK Government on AI, had frequently warned about the dangers but said he did not realise the timeframe was so alarming.<\/p>\n “I’ve been going around saying this stuff’s going to get smarter than us and we really need to worry and it might happen within 10 years, but I go to Paul’s lectures and he says this stuff might happen in the next 18 months and that’s terrifying,” he said. “So I’m going tell a bunch of government leaders that on Friday.<\/p>\n “What’s going on is extremely dangerous. People haven’t really absorbed what it means to deal with a super-intelligent AI. If it’s super-intelligent it’s not going to be you controlling it \u2013 it’s going to be it controlling you.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n