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Comment by Geoffrey Hinton
Godfather of Deep Learning
The government should insist that the big companies do lots of safety experiments, spend considerable resources like a third of their compute resources on doing safety experiments while these things are still not as intelligent on us to see how they might evade control and what we could do about it. And I think that's a lot of the debate at OpenAI. The people interested in safety like Ilya Sutskever wanted significant resources to be spent on safety. People interested in profit like Sam Altman didn't want to spend too many resources on that.AI Unverifiable source (2024)
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A June 14, 2024 BNN Bloomberg interview by Jon Erlichman with Geoffrey Hinton does exist, and Fortune (June 20, 2024) independently confirms the ending of the quote: "The people interested in safety like Ilya Sutskever wanted significant resources to be spent on safety; people interested in profits like Sam Altman didn’t." However, I could only find unofficial transcript/blog reproductions for the full passage, and they differ slightly from your text (for example, "computer/computing resources" and "as us" rather than "on us"). So the quote appears authentic in substance, but I could not verify your exact full wording verbatim from a reliable source.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
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Quote content appears authentic. Multiple web sources confirm Geoffrey Hinton has made these statements about (1) government mandating ~1/3 of compute for safety experiments, and (2) the Sutskever vs. Altman safety-vs-profit tension at OpenAI. However, the source_url (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1801976488251814048) is an Elon Musk tweet sharing a Hinton interview clip — not the primary source. x.com is blocked so I cannot verify the tweet content directly. I also could not locate the exact original interview video URL to replace the source. The quote aligns with statement #202 ("Mandate big AI companies spend 30% of compute on AI safety") as "for", since Hinton explicitly advocates for ~1/3 of compute on safety. No vote currently exists for this statement-opinion pair.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 3mo ago
replying to Geoffrey Hinton