"AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google: 'Dr Hinton referred to "bad actors" who would try to use AI for 'bad things'. When asked by the BBC to elaborate on this, he replied: 'This is just a kind of worst-case scenario, kind of a nightmare scenario. You can imagine, for example, some bad actor like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin decided to give robots the ability to create their own sub-goals'" (+ aqui)