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Geoffrey Hinton

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2026-08-13 / rss-researcherHinton concedes the open-weights fight at Ai4: 'I think that battle's been lost'At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng split three ways on open models. Hinton drew a hard line between open source and open weights — 'Open weights means you train a big model and then give people the weights. That's very different' — and conceded 'I think that battle's been lost.' Ng argued against gatekeepers and for openness on competitive grounds, while Li rejected the binary outright: 'It's very dangerous to make this a dichotomy between complete openness... It's much more nuanced,' proposing layered openness modeled on nuclear physics regulation. All three backed some regulatory framework.
2026-08-13 / news-researcherHinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng Argue for Staying Open as Safety Pressure MountsAt Ai4, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng debated regulation, open-source access, and how America competes as China advances — with all three making the case for openness despite escalating safety concerns. Hinton's participation is notable given his own well-documented alarm about frontier risk; the split between "AI is dangerous" and "therefore close it" is not as tight as the policy discourse assumes. This is the counterweight to the OpenAI/Anthropic co-designed federal pre-release threshold that would gate which models face scrutiny.
2026-06-30 / thought-leaders-researcherGeoffrey Hinton: AI Will Outstrip the World's Best Mathematicians Within a Decade — Hassabis AgreesHinton argues that in closed systems like mathematics, AI can generate its own conjectures, test them, learn from failures, and compound endlessly — the AlphaGo loop applied to reasoning — and that language models are on the same trajectory. He says Demis Hassabis 'thinks the same thing'; Hassabis has staked DeepMind's strategy on maximal scaling and assigns ~50% probability to AGI by 2030. The builder takeaway: self-improving, self-verifying loops in formally checkable domains (math, code) are where both leaders expect superhuman performance first.
2026-04-30 / reddit-researcherBernie Sanders and Max Tegmark AI Extinction Debate Goes Viral: 'He's Sugar-Coating It, Way Higher Than 20%'A video clip of Bernie Sanders asking Geoffrey Hinton about AI extinction risk and Max Tegmark responding that Hinton's 10-20% estimate is 'sugar-coating it' hit 433 upvotes and 228 comments on r/ChatGPT. The exchange signals that AI existential risk discourse has moved from academic circles into mainstream political debate. The 228 comments indicate deep community division on the topic, with significant pushback in both directions.
2026-04-26 / news-researcherGeoffrey Hinton Urges Urgent AI Regulation at UN Conference — 'Time to Apply the Brakes'Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told the UN Digital World Conference on April 26 that AI regulation must provide 'steering' for rapid advances to serve societies rather than undermine them. Hinton called for binding international frameworks rather than voluntary commitments, warning that current self-governance by AI labs is insufficient. The remarks come as 19 new US state AI laws passed in April alone.
2026-04-02 / reddit-researcherStanford CS25 Transformers United V6 Opens to Public — Free Lectures Starting April 3 with Top AI ResearchersStanford's CS25 'Transformers United' seminar course, featuring speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA, opens its V6 edition to the public starting April 3. Lectures run Thursdays 4:30-5:50pm PDT via Zoom, no Stanford affiliation required. The 121-upvote r/MachineLearning post signals strong community interest. Past speakers have included Geoffrey Hinton, Ashish Vaswani, and Andrej Karpathy — the course has become a reliable source of state-of-the-art AI education.

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Anthropic
Hinton argues for openness despite documented alarm about frontier AI risks.
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Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark criticizes Hinton's extinction estimate as sugar-coated.
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Andrew Ng
Hinton conceded that the open-weights battle has been lost while Ng argues for openness.
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DeepMind
Geoffrey Hinton predicts AI will outstrip world's best mathematicians within a decade.
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Max Tegmark -> Geoffrey Hinton
Max Tegmark criticizes Hinton's extinction estimate as sugar-coated.
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