A German computer scientist known as the "father of AI" said fears over the technology are misplaced and there is no stopping artificial intelligence's progress.

"You cannot stop it," Jürgen Schmidhuber said of artificial intelligence and the current international race to build more powerful systems, according to The Guardian. "Surely not on an international level because one country might may have really different goals from another country. So, of course, they are not going to participate in some sort of moratorium."

Schmidhuber worked on artificial neural networks in the 1990s, with his research later spawning language-processing models for technologies such as Google Translate, The Guardian reported.

He currently serves as the director of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology’s AI initiative in Saudi Arabia, and he states in his bio that he has been working on building "a self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) smarter than himself" since he was roughly 15 years old.

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Schmidhuber said that he doesn’t believe anyone should try to halt progress on developing powerful artificial intelligence systems, arguing that "in 95% of all cases, AI research is really about our old motto, which is make human lives longer and healthier and easier."

Schmidhuber also said that concerns over AI are misplaced and that developing AI-powered tools for good purposes will counter bad actors using the technology.

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"It’s just that the same tools that are now being used to improve lives can be used by bad actors, but they can also be used against the bad actors," he said, according to The Guardian.

"And I would be much more worried about the old dangers of nuclear bombs than about the new little dangers of AI that we see now."

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His comments come as other tech leaders and experts have sounded the alarm that the powerful technology poses risks to humanity. Tesla founder Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joined thousands of other tech experts in signing a letter in March calling for AI labs to pause their research until safety measures are put in place.

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Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "godfather of AI," announced this month that he quit his job at Google to speak out on his tech fears. On Friday, Hinton said AI could pose "more urgent" risks to humanity than climate change – but even though he shares similar concerns to tech leaders such as Musk, he said pausing AI research at labs is "utterly unrealistic."

"I'm in the camp that thinks this is an existential risk, and it’s close enough that we ought to be working very hard right now and putting a lot of resources into figuring out what we can do about it," he told Reuters.

Schmidhuber, who has openly criticized Hinton for allegedly failing to cite fellow researchers in his studies, told The Guardian that AI will exceed human intelligence and ultimately benefit people as they use the AI systems, which follows comments he’s made in the past.

"I’ve been working on [AI] for several decades, since the '80s basically, and I still believe it will be possible to witness that AIs are going to be much smarter than myself, such that I can retire," Schmidhuber said in 2018.

Jeremy Renner gave fans an update on his health as he recovers from a near-fatal snowplow accident.

Renner, 52, joked he was taking his "new" body for a "test drive" as he posted a video of himself performing exercises – despite a broken tibia.

"I've decided to push through the pain of progress (this damn shattered tibia) and take the new parts for a tiny test drive," he captioned the Instagram post.

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"The body is miraculous…. Even though I feel like the Tin Man, needing oil for all my new joints (hips, knees, ankles, tibia etc )," he added. "Encouraged after this warm up to press on (don’t tell my PT)."

The actor also shared a video compilation showing how much progress he's made since the accident.

"My PT made this for reference and to remember, you cannot walk unless you take one step at a time!" he wrote in the caption.

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Renner revealed he was experiencing "lower pain levels" in an update shared Friday. "The Hurt Locker" star also shared he was "trying everything" to recover, including a "bone growth stimulator."

"Lower pain levels mark great progress…" he wrote on his Instagram story. "Making recovery and surpassing goals a daily habit!"

Bodycam footage released in April showed what unfolded during Renner's traumatic snowplow accident on New Year's Day near his home in Lake Tahoe, California.

Washoe County Sheriff's Department officials responded to the bloody scene, which was reported by a neighbor shortly before 9 a.m. Renner was attempting to help his nephew, Alex Fries, move a truck that was stuck in the snow.

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Renner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries after being crushed by the 14,000-pound PistenBully snowcat. He was airlifted to a hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.

After Renner was transported away from the scene, a paramedic could be heard saying, "I've never seen anything like this."

Since the accident, Renner has seemingly recovered well and made his first red carpet appearance in early April for the premiere of his Disney+ show, "Rennervations."

Renner recalled how he felt during the accident while speaking to Diana Sawyer, "I was awake through all of it, it’s exactly how you’d imagine it feels like… I was on asphalt and ice… it feels like someone took the wind out of you. Too many things are going on in the body to feel pain, it’s everything. It’s like if your soul could have pain."

Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright contributed to this report.