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Joshua Rothman

Joshua Rothman, a staff writer, authors the weekly column Open Questions. He has been with the magazine since 2012.

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Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built
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Joshua Rothman joins Geoffrey Hinton on his island and learns why the neural-network pioneer thinks A.I. systems, like Open AI’s ChatGPT, could grow too smart to remain under our control.