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AI is an 'alien being' and humanity is running out of time to adapt, says British-Canadian Nobel laureate

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Geoffrey Hinton says humanity has only a couple of years to adapt to artificial intelligence, which he described as “alien beings” because people may no longer be the only intelligent beings. The Nobel laureate made the comments to The Guardian; he also visited Washington last month to warn US lawmakers about AI risks.