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Nobel winners urge strong regulation to govern AI. Laureate Demis Hassabis indicates Tesla CEO Musk is worried over the potential of AI to wrest control from humans.

STOCKHOLM : Physics Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton and Chemistry laureate Dennis Hassabis on Saturday insisted on a need for strong regulation of artificial intelligence, which played a key role in their awards.

'' AI is a very important technology to regulate but I think it's very important that we get the regulations right and I think that's the hard thing at the moment is it's such a fast moving technology,'' Hassabis told news conference.

Hassabis, who jointly won with Americans David Baker and John Jumper for revealing the secrets of proteins through A.I., said such evolutionary speed posed a giant challenge.

But the underlying issue, he said, is '' about what do we want to use these systems for, how do we want to deploy them and making sure that all of humanity benefits from what these systems can do.''

British-Canadian Hinton, considered the Godfather of A.I., '' concluded that '' I wish I'd thought about safety earlier,'' in allusion to his fears about the potential for AI to ramp up the arms race. 

IN Oct 2024 - the Nobel Committees in Stockholm announced that the prizes in Physics and Chemistry were awarded to work related artificial intelligence [AI].

The Nobel Prize in Physics was  awarded to two scientists for discoveries that laid the groundwork for artificial intelligence [AI] used by hugely popular tools such as ChatGPT.

British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton, known as a '' godfather of A.I. '' and US physicist John Hopfield were given the prize for '' discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks,'' the Nobel jury said.

Governments are unwilling to regulate themselves when it comes to lethal autonomous weapons and there is an arms race going on between all the major arms suppliers like the United States, China, Russia, Britain, Israel.

Hassabis said he was recommending governments come up with '' fast and nimble regulations.''

He said he had been advising governments and civil society to build on regulations in domains such as healthcare and transport and '' see how the technology develops and then quickly adapt to the way that's going.''

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