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With AI warning, Nobel winner joins ranks of laureates who’ve cautioned about the risks of their own work
When computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his work on machine learning, he immediately issued a warning about the power of the technology that his research helped propel: artificial intelligence.
When computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his work on machine learning, he immediately issued a warning about the power of the technology that his research helped propel: artificial intelligence. Fleming made the initial discovery in 1928, and by the time he gave his Nobel lecture in 1945, already he had an important warning for the world: “It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body,” he said. Doudna, who founded the Innovative Genomics Institute, told CNN this week that she believed “appropriate warnings from scientists about the potential misuse of their discoveries is an important responsibility and helpful public service, particularly when the work has broad societal implications.”
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