Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “Godfather of AI,” is calling on researchers to design AI systems with built-in nurturing instincts, arguing this is necessary to keep humanity safe as machines surpass human-level intelligence. The AI expert believes machines must be trained to “care for us, like we’re babies.”

The Decoder reports that speaking at the recent Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Hinton made the case that trying to permanently keep superintelligent AI under human control is unrealistic. Rather than humans acting as the boss of advanced AI, he envisions a future where people relate to hyper-capable machines more like how a child depends on its mother.

“We need to make machines that are smarter than us care for us, like we’re their babies,” Hinton said in his talk. “The focus of

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