In TrendsStock MarketNSE IPONifty OutlookStocks To WatchCrude Oil PricesUS FED MeetingBRICS Summit‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton says artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within 10 yearsGeoffrey Hinton has said it is “not unreasonable” to estimate a 10% chance that AI could cause human extinction within the next decade.By CNBCTV18.com September 17, 2026, 3:08:01 PM IST (Updated)Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly in recent years, but the technology’s potential long-term risks are also drawing fresh warnings from some of its pioneers.Geoffrey Hinton, referred to as the Godfather of AI, has said it is ‘not unreasonable’ to predict that it could wipe out humanity within the next decade.Speaking to the BBC’s Newsnight, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist put the probability at around 10%, while stressing that there was no reliable method for calculating such a risk.Hinton said society never dealt with a technology that could potentially become smarter than humans, making precise predictions particularly difficult.“A 10% chance seems not an unreasonable estimate to me,” Hinton said, adding that it would also be difficult to justify assigning a much lower figure because “nobody knows how to estimate it.”Hinton says AI risk timeline has shortenedHinton also said his estimate of when AI could pose an…
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