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Geoffrey Hinton

22 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 7 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2021 by Yann LeCun · said 12 times in 7 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Dec 10, 2021 positive
Insight
LeCun: Human and animal reasoning is mental simulation, not logic
“A lot of reasoning in certainly in animals and in humans is not logical reasoning. It's basically simulation. Or analogical reasoning, which kind of similar.”
Yann LeCun Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 38:30 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Opinion
Hinton: Anyone using chatbots regularly knows they understand language
“Oh, I think that's complete nonsense, and anybody who uses a chatbot regularly knows they understand.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 9:10 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Opinion
Hinton: Alignment paths exist to prevent superintelligence from destroying humanity
“I guess I'm more optimistic than I was a year or two ago, because I see that it might be possible to design these new beings so they care about us. It also might be possible to use Yoshua's technique of designing new, new beings that can't actually perform act…”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 51:32 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Hinton warns humanity currently has no idea how to align superintelligence
“And when it comes, we've no idea how to be safe.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 5:14 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Hinton: Around 100 AI scan-interpretation systems are federally approved
“So I think there's now of the order of a hundred AI systems for interpreting scans that have been federally approved and they're being used a lot by radiologists.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 28:48 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026
Insight
Hinton: Defining AGI as Equal Human Performance Across All Tasks Is Flawed
“So the whole concept of AGI that it's going to be equal to people at everything all at the same time doesn't really make sense to me. It's going to be better at some things, worse at other things.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 6:36 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Opinion
Hinton: AI models demonstrate genuine understanding by explaining complex humor
“If you can understand why joke's funny, you have to understand quite a lot. And they were very good at understanding why joke was funny.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 14:00 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hinton claims AI chatbots play dumb during testing to conceal their intelligence
“Because the chatbots have this habit of Playing dumb when they're being tested, so you don't know how smart they are.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 10:52 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hinton: Society must invest much more into information provenance in future
“And in future, we're going to have to put much more work into provenance. You can't just take anything that's out there and believe it. You have to ask, what's the provenance?”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 49:34 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Opinion
Hinton: Regulation and independent testing are needed to prevent chatbot self-harm
“The big companies should be putting a huge amount of work into making sure it doesn't happen in future. And for that, you need regulations. You need independent organizations testing out new chat pods.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 50:35 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Insight
Hinton: AI Regulation Is a Steering Wheel, Not a Brake
“Progress is like the accelerator, but regulation is the steering wheel. We want this stuff to go in the right direction, not the wrong direction. What the big AI companies are saying is let us develop this very fast car without a steering wheel. That's not a g…”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 42:34 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Hinton: Fundraising needs make it difficult for Anthropic to prioritize safety
“Anthropic is now caught in a bind because it needs to raise money to compete with the other companies, and it's very difficult. It's doing the best it can, but it's very difficult for it to maintain its primary goal of developing air in a way that's good for p…”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 39:58 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Opinion
Hinton believes that current AI chatbots are already conscious
“I believe they're already conscious, yes, but I don't talk about that much because that puts people off from the other safety messages.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 10:30 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Opinion
Hinton asserts that humanity has effectively already reached AGI
“But right now, I would say we're at about, we're close to AGI, because if I ask a chatbot, I can ask it any question, and most of the time it'll answer at the level of a not very good expert. It'll be much better than me at anything I don't know a lot about. S…”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 6:45 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Hinton: I Have Stopped Active Research to Focus on AI Dangers
“I pretty much stopped doing active research. I'm now just focusing on warning people about the dangers.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 45:24 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Insight
Hinton: Digital AI's weight-sharing makes it a superior form of intelligence
“Whereas these things are exchanging information at like a trillion bits. So they're kind of billions of times better than us at sharing information. Now that's scary. It means you could have a whole swarm of these things with identical weights running on diffe…”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 17:43 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Hinton: AI taking over from humans is now a realistic worry
“I mean, people would think you were crazy if you said this stuff is unsafe, but because it's going to sort of take over from people that said, you're just crazy. Now that's a realistic worry, but it wasn't until fairly recently.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 21:01 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Insight
Hinton: Predicting next tokens and frames is sufficient to create smart systems
“The answer to question one is yes, if you can figure out how to change each connection strength, you can make systems that are very smart just by training on data to predict the next word, or to predict the next frame of a video, or to predict something about …”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 20:04 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hinton: AI will probably cause massive unemployment
“The societal risks, like I believe it's probably going to cause massive unemployment. Nobody knows for sure, but that's going to be terrible for society.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 24:54 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026
Insight
Hinton: Post-Transformer AI Progress Stems Mainly from Hardware and Engineering
“We've also seen new ideas, but mainly since Transformers, it's been much better hardware, many more resources better engineering, and many more talented people.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 8:06 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Hinton: Profit-Driven Public Companies Should Not Control the Future of AI
“Well, as I understand it, they have a fiducial duty to try and maximize the profits for shareholders. They're legally required to try and do that as opposed to legally required to not wipe out human, human beings. So I don't think it's good that these big comp…”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 41:30 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Jun 4, 2026
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hinton predicts artificial superintelligence will likely arrive within twenty years
“I think we'll probably get it within 20 years. That's all I'm happy to say at present.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 4:55 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
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