New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton has warned that rich people will soon use AI to replace workers, which could trigger a massive unemployment scenario while leading to a rise in profits for massive corporations.

In an interaction with Financial Times, Hinton said, "What's actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,"

"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, that is the capitalist system," he added.

Hinton is among the pioneering figures in the AI industry and has experience working at Google for over a decade until he left the company in 2023 to speak more freely ab...