Geoffrey Hinton

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Godfather of Deep Learning

Speaks on: AI AI Regulation Future AI Governance AI Policy

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Location: Canada

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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We should be careful to construct in a way where we still continue to exist, and we can live in harmony with it. [...] Very few resources are being put into it. Maybe one percent.
AI Verified source (2026) 1 of 5

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The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity
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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...
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AI alignment is solvable
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If it takes over that's what will happen. [...] We don't know how to do that. We don't even know if it's possible.
AI Verified source (Apr 3, 2025)

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