Geoffrey Hinton

“"I’m trying to convey that there is a really serious possibility of something happening. If, for example, you’re told there was a 10% possibility of a bus crashing, you wouldn’t get on the…”

“"The unique problem with AI is that if it goes wrong, if it takes over, you don’t get a second chance. We can’t say, ‘Well, we lost that time. Let’s rerun the game.’ It’s not like that."”

“"All this stuff just a few years ago was written off as complete fantasy. And it’s all happened."”

“Any sufficiently intelligent agent that has the ability to create subgoals will realize that it needs to survive in order to achieve the goals we gave it. So even if it is never externally…”

“Some linguists would have you believe what’s going on here is just some statistical correlations. I would have you believe this thing really doesn’t want to be shut down. This has already…”

“I often say [there's a] 10% to 20% chance [for AI] to wipe us out. But that's just gut, based on the idea that we're still making them and we're pretty ingenious.”

“There's risks that come from people misusing AI, and that's most of the risks and all of the short-term risks. And then there's risks that come from AI getting super smart and understanding…”

“And over time, it turned out that Sam Altman was much less concerned with safety than with profits. And I think that's unfortunate.”

“very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs”

“I was consulted by people in Downing Street. I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea.”

“One of the ways these systems might escape control is by writing their own computer code to modify themselves. And that's something we need to seriously worry about.”

“When this learning algorithm then interacts with data, it produces complicated neural networks that are good at doing things. But we don't really understand exactly how they do those things.”

“I think my main message is there's enormous uncertainty about what's going to happen next.”