Scientist and physicist Geoffrey Hinton believes there could be a one in five chance that humanity will eventually be taken over by artificial intelligence.
Hinton, a Nobel laureate in physics who's been dubbed the 'godfather of AI', made the startling prediction in an April 1 interview with CBS News that was aired on Saturday morning.
'I'm in the unfortunate position of happening to agree with Elon Musk on this, which is that there's a 10 to 20 percent chance that these things will take over, but that's just a wild guess,' Hinton said.
Besides his cost-cutting responsibilities in the federal government, Musk is the chief executive of xAI, the company that made the AI chatbot Grok.
Musk has said AI will become smarter than the entire human race by 2029. He's also described a future where everyone will be pushed out of their jobs by AI who can do the tasks more efficiently.
Hinton agreeing with Musk's warnings is alarming, largely because Hinton has arguably contributed more to the birth of artificial intelligence than anyone else.
'The best way to understand it emotionally is we are like somebody who has this really cute tiger cub. Unless you can be very sure that it's not gonna want to kill you when it's grown up, you should worry,' Hinton said.
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