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Geoffrey Hinton

computer scientist; Turing award and Nobel prize in physics winner

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“I’m trying to convey that there is a really serious possibility of something happening. If, for example, you’re told there was a 10% possibility of a bus crashing, you wouldn’t get on the bus”
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’The Guardian, October 13, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Hinton's reply to critics of the extinction-risk figures, explaining the purpose of giving numbers, as the Guardian quotes it.
“Do we think tobacco companies should have been allowed to design the warnings on the packets? So that they could print them in a six-point font, in dark grey on black?”
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’The Guardian, October 13, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Hinton on industry self-regulation: a rhetorical question that follows a remark that oil and asbestos companies would also have liked to regulate themselves.
“Now we’re creating alien beings – meaning we’re not the only intelligent beings around. And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.”
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’The Guardian, October 13, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Hinton, after citing Copernicus and Darwin as earlier revolutions in how people see their place in the world.
“I’m willing to be selfish and choose human beings. Of course, we should try to make them so that they’re very happy in a symbiotic relationship with us, where our concerns are weighed more heavily than their concerns.”
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’The Guardian, October 13, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Hinton on the moral status of the AI systems companies are building and how human interests should rank against theirs.

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    AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’

    In a Guardian interview, Geoffrey Hinton argues that AI poses a serious risk of human extinction, rejects industry self-regulation, and says people have only a couple of years to adapt to what Hinton calls alien beings. Hinton also responds to critics of risk estimates, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and disputes President Trump's use of the term superintelligence.