Geoffrey Hinton

Pionnier des réseaux de neurones et prix Nobel, il a quitté Google en 2023 pour avertir que l’intelligence numérique pourrait dépasser et échapper au contrôle humain, estimant entre 10 et 20 % la probabilité d’une extinction causée par l’IA dans les décennies à venir.

Fonctions

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

Au registre

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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →