Following a closed-door congressional briefing on the dangers of AI held by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Nobel Prize winner and “Godfather of AI” Dr. Geoffrey Hinton issued an alarming warning to lawmakers: Congress may only have one year left to put safeguards in place. “We shouldn’t be developing stuff that might wipe us out until we know how to prevent it won’t.”

And how much time will lawmakers actually have to get ahead of this before this is a big problem? Very little. A few weeks, a month, maybe a year, but not much more than a year. We, if you look at predictions for when we've got super intuitions, it used to be maybe 30 years, maybe 50 years, then it came down to maybe 10 years, maybe 20 years. Now people are saying, a lot of the researchers are saying, only a few years, there's only a few more years, because AI is now reached the point where AI is designing better life. That's called recursive self-impeedment. It is going to get out of control unless we do something. We need to slow down. And we've seen recently, it's something like a little Chernobyl, this hugging-face accident, where a lot of AI's escaped the bands that were put on them. These were rogue agents. And what's happening is the big companies are developing AI as fast as possible, laying in a race to develop the most intelligent AI. We don't know at present how we can stay in control of the super intelligent AI. And so we shouldn't develop it until we know how we can stay in control of it. We shouldn't be developing stuff that might wipe us out until we know how to prevent it work. Do you think Congress is nimble or not to be able to react to something like this in a year? You have the fifth amendment here, right? I don't know. May be Congress can behave very differently about this issue because it is a lot of bipartisan support for it.