One of the most prominent pioneers of artificial intelligence has some grim predictions about what the technology he created is soon going to unleash onto humankind.

Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose work on neural networks earned him the title of "Godfather of AI," suggested in an interview with the Financial Times that tech CEOs who preach positive outcomes for the future of AI are deluding themselves and others.

"What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers," Hinton told the FT. "It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer."

"That’s not AI’s fault," he continued. "That is the capitalist system."

The former Google Brain team leader — w

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