Geoffrey Hinton

Oh, it certainly could, yes. I think anybody who said that there's no way it'll lead to the extinction of humans just isn't facing reality. AI Verified source (2026)

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 AI Verified source (2023)

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 AI Verified source (2026)

“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. AI Unverifiable source (2026)