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	Podcast:		Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)
	Episode:		Why AI needs to be nicer to us and develop 'maternal instincts'
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:10
	Publish Date:		2026-02-18 19:10:00
	Description:		If AI continues to develop without appropriate guardrails, a worst-case scenario could lead to human extinction, warns the 'godfather of artificial intelligence ' Geoffrey Hinton. But the Nobel Prize winner has a solution: AI must foster 'maternal' instincts, empathy and kindness. Hinton tells host Nahlah Ayed that it's fairly inevitable AI will become smarter than humans, but if we could make it care more for us than it did about itself, good things could happen.
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