‘Godfather of AI’ warns of jobs where ‘everybody will get replaced’

Geoffrey Hinton, the man widely hailed as the “Godfather of AI”, has issued a warning about the future of work in the age of artificial intelligence. Speaking on the podcast ‘Diary of a CEO’, the 78-year-old pioneer of neural networks said AI could lead to sweeping job losses, especially in white-collar professions.

“I think for mundane intellectual labour, AI is just going to replace everybody,” Hinton said, referring to roles such as paralegals and call centre workers. “You’d have to be very skilled to have a job that it [AI] just couldn’t…