Geoffrey Hinton

Let's open source nuclear weapons too to make them safer. The good guys (us) will always have bigger ones than the bad guys (them) so it should all be OK. Verified source (2023)

I used to think it was a long way off, but I now think it's serious and fairly close [...] The alarm bell I’m ringing has to do with the existential threat of them taking control. Unverified source

It’s research but only the big companies have the resources to do this research because it’s research on the large cutting edge models. My belief is that government’s the only people who are powerful enough to deal with these large companies and even... more Unverified source (2025)

Professor Geoffrey Hinton: The idea of opening up to all humanity sounds like open sourcing. It might be what I mean. But when you open source a big model and give people the weights that's not at all like open weights is not like open source. Open s... more Unverified source (2025)

I don’t think they should scale this up more until they have understood whether they can control it. We’ve entered completely unknown territory. We’re capable of building machines that are stronger than ourselves, but what if we develop machines that... more Unverified source (2023)

GH: I’m an expert on trying to get the technology to work, not an expert on social policy. One place where I do have technical expertise that’s relevant is [whether] regulators should insist that you can explain how your AI system works. I think that... more Unverified source (2017)

“What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” he said. “It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fau... more Unverified source (2025)