# ‘Godfather of AI’ has quit Google to warn people of AI risks

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/godfather-of-ai-has-quit-google-to-warn-people-of-ai-risks/
- Published: 2023-05-11T09:15:55-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo caption: Hinton is also Chief Scientific Advisor at the Vector Institute and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Photo credit: Getty Images. Article by Cecily Mauran. Mashable – May 1, 2023. Geoffrey Hinton, “the Godfather of AI,” has resigned from Google following the rapid rise of ChatGPT and other chatbots, in order to “freely speak out about the risks of AI,” he told The New York Times. Hinton, who helped lay the groundwork for today’s generative AI, was an engineering fellow at Google for over a decade. Per the Times, a part of him regrets his life’s work after seeing the danger generative AI poses. […] Click here to view original web page at mashable.com