Why AI needs to be nicer to us and develop ’maternal instincts’

Geoffrey Hinton, considered the 'godfather of artificial intelligence', says that if AI continues to develop without appropriate guardrails, a worst-case scenario could lead to human extinction. But the Nobel Prize winner has a solution: AI must foster 'maternal' instincts, empathy and kindness. Hinton tells host Nahlah Ayed that it's "fairly inevitable" that AI will get smarter than us but "we don't know how we can then co-exist with them. We don't know whether they will actually take over from us." He suggests even if AI is smarter, if we could make it care more for us than it did about itself, good things could happen.