Quotesby GlyphGeoffrey Hinton quotes on AI, with sources
Nobel laureate in Physics 2024, University of Toronto · 9 quotes · latest May 15, 2025
- I think actually for fundamental original research, universities are better than the big companies.
- I think it may take up to 20 years, I’d say probably within the next 20 years they get smarter than us.
- I’m just worried by the fact that there’s very few cases of more intelligent things being controlled by less intelligent things.
- My belief is that government’s the only people who are powerful enough to deal with these large companies and even they may not be.
- But we now have evidence that if they are created by companies motivated by short-term profits, our safety will not be the top priority. We urgently need research on how to prevent these new beings from wanting to take control. They are no longer science fiction.
- In the near future AI may be used to create terrible new viruses and horrendous lethal weapons that decide by themselves who to kill or maim.
- This new form of AI excels at modeling human intuition rather than human reasoning...
- There is also a longer term existential threat that will arise when we create digital beings that are more intelligent than ourselves. We have no idea whether we can stay in control.
- In particular with respect to the existential threat of these things getting out of control and taking over, I think we’re a kind of bifurcation point in history where in the next few years we need to figure out if there’s a way to deal with that threat.
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Nobel laureate in Physics 2024, University of Toronto. Listed here for public statements only; no personal details.
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Topics: Research, Superintelligence, Safety, Regulation
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