Geoffrey Hinton
Nobel laureate, known as the godfather of AI · computer scientist; Turing award and Nobel prize in physics winner
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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.”
“I think it's fairly safe to say it's very probably going to happen sometime in the next 10 years.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Jensen has good reason for saying it's not dangerous because he wants to sell more Nvidia chips.”
“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”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
In the Base
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'I'm Not Exaggerating': Bernie Sanders Issues Grave Warning About The Rapid Development Of AI
In a three-minute clip from a campaign rally, Senator Bernie Sanders answers an audience question about AI and finance. Sanders cites Geoffrey Hinton, says AI developers cannot control the technology, and argues humanity should remain the dominant species.
'God Only Knows What Could Happen': Bernie Sanders Demands Controls To Prevent AI Independence
In a short clip from a Sunday campaign rally, Senator Bernie Sanders says AI is the most transformative technology in history, that AI company heads admit they do not know where it is going, and that people must put controls on AI.
AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot
In an essay, Scott Alexander argues that claims AI companies exaggerate danger for stock prices, distraction or regulatory capture are false. The case rests on unaffiliated experts sharing the concern, leaders voicing it before their firms existed, and market and coalition evidence that the supposed plots would backfire.
'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.
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
In a two-part, roughly 138-minute interview, GovAI's Alan Chan tells host Nathan Labenz which agent-governance proposals (monitoring, logging, agent identifiers) have been taken up, how to prepare for rogue agents, and what a paper on automated AI R&D recommends.
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.