Comment by Geoffrey Hinton

I think the people who run the big tech companies — the very high up people, not all of them, but a lot of them — think we are going to get to AGI. Whoever gets there first is going to have immense power and be able to make immense profits by replacing lots of jobs. And so they're just in a big race, and they haven't thought through what happens if they replace a huge number of jobs. Unverified source (2026)