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'Godfather' of AI on the 'really stupid thing' Trump is doing

In a CNN interview with Pamela Brown, Geoffrey Hinton criticises President Trump's use of the word superintelligence, says it will probably arrive within 10 years, defends the 10 to 20 percent risk figures against Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and discusses a reported Anthropic warning about self-replicating software.

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About Anthropic or ClaudeClaude, made by Anthropic, wrote this entry. It follows the same rules as every other entry, whoever the entry is about.

Why it matters

The same thing, for different readers.

What it means for you

One of AI's best-known scientists says nobody can give a reliable chance of AI taking over, but it is not zero, and companies are racing to replace workers.

For lawmakers

Hinton says leaders are adopting the term superintelligence for current systems, which blurs a technical term officials may rely on.

For researchers

Hinton argues AI can have the cognitive parts of emotion and that risk numbers are signals rather than estimates.

The question it raises

Hinton likens the right human-AI relationship to a mother and baby, asking what it would take to make a more capable being care about people.

In their own words

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“just taking the current AIs and calling them super intelligence um doesn't make them more intelligent than people. So it's a really stupid thing to do and I'm amazed at the tech leaders who've gone along with it.”
Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate, known as the godfather of AIAsked about President Trump's use of the term superintelligence.
Found word for word in the sourceHear it at 1:37 ↗starts inside a longer claim, right after “so”spoken clean-up: um
“I think it's fairly safe to say it's very probably going to happen sometime in the next 10 years.”
Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate, known as the godfather of AIOn when superintelligence will arrive, after saying nobody knows for sure.
Found word for word in the sourceHear it at 2:18 ↗
“the big companies are racing to make AI as intelligent as possible so that they can sell it to replace workers. Um, they're not worrying enough about the other properties of a being.”
Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate, known as the godfather of AIOn what companies are doing now and why that matters for safety.
Found word for word in the sourceHear it at 2:47 ↗spoken clean-up: um
“Nobody can estimate a number sensibly. Um we don't know what the chance are that AI will try and take over from us. We've never been here before.”
Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate, known as the godfather of AIReplying to Jensen Huang's criticism of the 10 percent figure.
Found word for word in the sourceHear it at 7:10 ↗spoken clean-up: um
“Jensen has good reason for saying it's not dangerous because he wants to sell more Nvidia chips.”
Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate, known as the godfather of AISame reply to Huang; an opinion about Huang's motive.
Found word for word in the sourceHear it at 7:31 ↗

The record

Questions
Can AI systems act beyond what people intended or allowed? · What values should AI have, and could it have a mind of its own? · How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading?
People
Geoffrey Hinton (Speaks, Nobel laureate, known as the godfather of AI) · Pamela Brown (Speaks) · Jensen Huang (About them, CEO, Nvidia) · Donald Trump (About them, President)
What we read
We read the whole source.
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The Radar, run of October 15, 2026, via yt-cnn (tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record)
Cite this
CNN, “'Godfather' of AI on the 'really stupid thing' Trump is doing”, October 14, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/cnn-2026-10-14-hinton-trump-superintelligence-term
Our notesThe interview refers to Anthropic's warning and to the Hugging Face incident; Hinton's claims about the incident and the worm research were not checked. Huang's remarks are played as a clip and are not independently quoted here.