Geoffrey Hinton
University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto · as of 2026-10-04 · source
'Godfather of AI': backpropagation, deep belief nets and AlexNet; 2018 Turing Award and 2024 Physics Nobel. Left Google in 2023 to warn about AI risk and in 2026 told Congress it has 'maybe a year' to regulate.
Role changes
- 2023-05-01 Left Google to speak freely about AI risks source
News mentioning Geoffrey Hinton (15)
- #TeamHuman: YouTube creators with 300M+ subscribers (Mark Rober, Kurzgesagt and others) launch a campaign for a global AI slowdown ★★★★
A coalition of YouTube creators launched #TeamHuman (teamhuman.org), a public statement and petition saying "AI is moving faster than our ability to control it" and calling for "a global slowdown through international agreements". The site lists signatories with 300M+ combined subscribers, led by…
- Hinton, Bengio, Pachocki, Jack Clark and others: automating AI R&D could trigger an 'intelligence explosion' ★★★★
On Sept 28, 2026 the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy published "What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?" with 22 authors writing in a personal capacity: Hinton, Bengio, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Anthropic's Jack Clark, Microsoft's Eric Horvitz, Dawn…
- Model Republic traces the September anti-'AI safety' online campaign to Innovation Council Action, a $100M pro-AI dark-money group ★★
On Sept 25, 2026 Tyler Johnston (The Midas Project) published an analysis in Model Republic arguing that the wave of attacks on AI-safety advocates in September, which called safety concerns a "psyop" or a "cult", was coordinated by Innovation Council Action, a nonprofit led by former White House…
- Rep. Ro Khanna's 'shadow hearing' with Hinton calls for a US–China AI pacing agreement; letters to DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot ★★★
On Sept 23, 2026, the day before Trump's White House meeting with Xi Jinping, Rep. Ro Khanna (ranking Democrat on the House China Select Committee) held a virtual "shadow hearing" calling for a binding US–China agreement to pace frontier AI. Geoffrey Hinton and Lt. Gen. (ret.) Jack Shanahan…
- Sen. John Kennedy's AI 'kill switch' bill is blocked in the Senate after Rand Paul objects ★★
On Sept 17, 2026 Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked for unanimous consent to pass a bill requiring developers of advanced AI models to build their own "kill switch" for shutting down a model that goes wrong. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected, so the bill did not pass. Kennedy's bill is separate from…
- Hinton tells lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that Congress has 'maybe a year' to regulate AI ★★★
On Sept 16, 2026 Geoffrey Hinton and other AI experts briefed senators and representatives behind closed doors at an event hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders. Afterwards Hinton said Congress had "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" before losing the ability to control AI, that AI now designs…
- Dario Amodei publishes "We Must Pace the Frontier", calling for a deliberate slowdown ★★★★
On September 12, 2026 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published 'We Must Pace the Frontier'. The essay argues that AI capability, especially through recursive self-improvement, is outpacing alignment and security, and lays out a three-part plan to slow the frontier. Anthropic unilaterally committed to…
- Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton ★★★★★
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton 'for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks'.
- "A Right to Warn about Advanced AI": current and former OpenAI and DeepMind employees demand whistleblower protections ★★★
On June 4, 2024, thirteen current and former employees of frontier AI companies (mostly OpenAI, plus Google DeepMind and Anthropic alumni), six of them anonymous, published "A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence". It was endorsed by Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Stuart…
- Leading AI scientists sign the one-sentence statement on AI extinction risk ★★★★
Hundreds of AI researchers and executives, including Hinton, Bengio, Altman, Hassabis and Amodei, signed: 'Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.'
- Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google so he can speak freely about AI risks ★★★★
On May 1, 2023 The New York Times reported that Geoffrey Hinton, the deep-learning pioneer and Turing Award winner, had quit Google after more than a decade so he could warn about AI's dangers. He said digital intelligence might overtake humans far sooner than he had thought, and he later won the…
- Hinton, LeCun and Bengio receive the Turing Award for deep learning ★★★
The ACM awarded the 2018 A.M. Turing Award to Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, the 'godfathers of deep learning', for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
- AlexNet wins ImageNet challenge, igniting the deep learning boom ★★★★★
Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton's GPU-trained convolutional network won ILSVRC-2012 with a top-5 error of 15.3% vs. 26.2% for the runner-up, convincing the field that deep learning works.
- Hinton's deep belief nets launch the 'deep learning' revival ★★★★
Hinton, Osindero and Teh showed that deep networks could be trained effectively with greedy layer-wise pretraining, a result widely credited with reviving interest in 'deep learning'.
- Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams popularize backpropagation ★★★★★
The Nature paper 'Learning representations by back-propagating errors' showed that multi-layer neural networks trained with backpropagation learn useful internal representations, reviving neural network research.
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- Geoffrey Hinton original ↗ Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton · x · 2023-05-03
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Videos (2)
- OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now 'Hell' AI Explained · 2026-10-01
- Google DeepMind Safety Researcher: "This Is Not a Drill" Palisade Research · 2026-09-29
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