Geoffrey Hinton

Fonctions

1. 1987 – aujourd’huiProfessor, University of TorontoNow University Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science.Source →
2. 1998 – 2001Founding Director, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College LondonSource →
3. 2013 – mai 2023Vice President and Engineering Fellow, GoogleWorked half-time at Google Brain; left so he could speak freely about AI risk.Source →
4. 2017 – aujourd’huiCo-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector InstituteSource →

Au registre

1. 17 sept. 2026 · Déclaration · NBC News

   AI has now reached the point where AI is designing better AI … That’s called recursive self-improvement. ... It is going to get out of control unless we do something. We need to slow down.

   Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute à l’époque

   Said to reporters after the briefing. The two elisions are of different hands: the “…” stands where the page prints the attribution tag (“,” Hinton told reporters after the briefing. “), while the three periods are NBC's own, printed on the page inside the quotation. His description of the Hugging Face breach as a “little Chernobyl” is left out — on this page that phrase sits inside the reporter's sentence rather than in a quotation of his own.

   ‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI →

2. 17 sept. 2026 · Déclaration · NBC News

   Maybe a year, but not much more than a year … If you look at predictions for when we’ll get superintelligence … it used to be maybe 30 years, maybe 50 years. Then it came down to maybe 10 years, maybe 20 years. Now people are saying, a lot of the researchers are saying only a few years.

   Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute à l’époque

   Answering how long Congress has to put guardrails on AI, after the closed bipartisan briefing he gave with Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra at Senator Bernie Sanders' invitation; Senator John Kennedy was the only Republican to attend. Both ellipses stand where the page prints an attribution tag (“,” Hinton said … “,” he continued, “). The briefing is dated on the page only as “Wednesday evening”; the date given is the date printed on the page carrying the words, and The Next Web independently carries the first sentence with the same wording.

   ‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI →

3. 22 avr. 2026 · Discours · Digital World Conference, Geneva (via AFP)

   We don't know whether we can co-exist with super intelligent AI … But we are constructing it … we should be careful to construct in a way where we still continue to exist

   Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute à l’époque

   Spoke by video link; also said only "maybe 1%" of AI work goes into making it safer.

   He helped build AI. Now he is sounding the alarm about what comes next for everyone →

4. 10 janv. 2025 · Entretien · WBUR On Point

   Superintelligence is coming, and nobody knows how we can control that.

   Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute à l’époque

   Radio interview first broadcast 10 January 2025 and rebroadcast 29 December 2025; he restates his 10–20% extinction estimate.

   The ‘Godfather of AI’ says we can’t afford to get it wrong →

5. 10 déc. 2024 · Discours · Nobel Prize banquet, Stockholm

   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.

   Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute à l’époque

   Banquet speech after receiving the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics; the official text is at nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hinton/speech/.

   Geoffrey Hinton decries tech companies chasing “short-term profits” in Nobel Prize acceptance speech →

6. 30 mai 2023 · Déclaration · Center for AI Safety

   Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

   Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute à l’époque

   Listed as a signatory as Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

   Statement on AI Risk →

7. 2 mai 2023 · Entretien · MIT Technology Review

   These things are totally different from us. Sometimes I think it's as if aliens had landed and people haven't realized because they speak very good English.

   Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute à l’époque

   Interview given the day after he announced he had left Google.

   Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he's now scared of the tech he helped build →