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. AI Verified source

We are making these things, they're getting smarter all the time. And they will become much smarter than us. [...] [Digital intelligences are] billions of times better at sharing information than we are – not twice as good, billions of times better –... more Unverified source (2026)

We somehow have to have a way of — when AI agents replace people — doing what Bill Gates has suggested recently. We have to have a way of taxing the AI agents, so there's still a tax base. Unverified source (2026)

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 replaci... more Unverified source (2026)

Scott Pelley: You believe these systems have experiences of their own and can make decisions based on those experiences? Geoffrey Hinton: In the same sense as people do, yes. Scott Pelley: Are they conscious? Geoffrey Hinton: I think they probably d... more Unverified source (2024)

I don't believe there'll be nearly as many new jobs created as it destroys, as it replaces. AI Verified source (2025)

“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 AI Unverifiable source (2025)

We don't know whether we can co-exist with super intelligent AI. Unverified source (2026)