‘Godfather of AI’ Warns of Job Massacre

Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate and pioneer of artificial intelligence, has issued a stark warning: AI could not only replace human jobs, but render most cognitive labor obsolete. In a recent podcast with Steven Bartlett, Hinton said that “ordinary intellectual work will disappear,” with roles like legal assistants and call center workers among the first to go.

Contrary to optimistic views that AI will…