New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Geoffrey Hinton, the former Google researcher widely recognized as the Godfather of AI, has issued another warning about artificial intelligence systems. In his latest interaction, Hinton compared current AI systems to AI beings and said there is an urgent need for research on how to stop them from taking over the world.

Speaking to British-American entrepreneur Andrew Keen on his YouTube channel, Hinton said, "The existential threat is very different. We've never had to deal with things smarter than us. I mean, nuclear weapons, they're not smarter than us. They just make a bigger bang, and they're easy to understand, whereas AI, people don't yet understand that what we're doing is creating alien beings."

Hinton, w...