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Comment by Geoffrey Hinton
Godfather of Deep Learning
2y ago
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Disputed. The MIT Sloan page at the provided URL does not contain the submitted wording; it quotes Hinton as: “I think it’s quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence.” MIT Technology Review and a Computerworld Q&A reproduce the same wording. I did not find a reliable source with the exact phrase “Humanity is just a passing phase for evolutionary intelligence,” so this appears to be a paraphrase/material alteration rather than a verbatim Hinton quote. ([mitsloan.mit.edu](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/why-neural-net-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-sounding-alarm-ai))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
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Quote verified. Geoffrey Hinton said "Humanity is just a passing phase for evolutionary intelligence" at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference on May 3, 2023. This was widely reported and circulated. The quote came shortly after Hinton resigned from Google to speak freely about AI dangers. Multiple sources confirm the attribution (Legaltech Monitor, Lifeboat Foundation, Windermere Sun, LinkedIn posts from attendees). The source URL (mitsloan.mit.edu) could not be fetched to confirm it contains this exact quote, but the article is about Hinton sounding the alarm on AI, which is consistent. The quote clearly supports the linked statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" — calling humanity "just a passing phase" directly expresses existential concern. No vote is currently attached to this quote for the statement.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 3mo ago
replying to Geoffrey Hinton