Hinton is a complete banana. If anything, we'll do it without technology.

Are you excluding military weapons from technology? I wonder what kid of extinction are you thinking of, probably climate change but I don't think that possibility will lead to humanity extinction.

He's referring to specific uses of technology as in AI, not the summary headline The Grauniad used. That my nature excludes 99.99% of everything that goes boom at the moment.

I'm not worried about this, but I am worried about not being able to get decent customer service anywhere in 3 years.

Customer service is already awful. Most front line employees I encounter are miserable at best. I now mostly order for pickup or go out to eat rarely at high end restaurants that still have great service. Choose your battles.

This is the true existential threat. You probably will lose your life to AI first, but you ultimately will lose your life. Read "Superintelligence".

We can’t get people to drive EVs to reduce emissions and preserve an essential resource (oil), future generations won’t have the resources to destroy themselves with superhuman AI.

didn't read the article, but I can imagine if things goes well, in developed cities/states, the robot to human ratio can be anywhere between 3:1 to 1:1. Robots will be indistinguishable from weapons. How can a billion human regulates 3 billion robots, regardless how many safety layers we have.

There are many small countries run by military with probably 1:100 military to civilian ratio, the civilians can do nothing to change it.

Technology is wonderful, I am very optimistic about the technology, but also can't help feeling the same way as Hinton does.

Hinton is very unwell mentally and it's a pity how the press exploits his paranoia for easy clicks.