--- title: "Geoffrey Hinton: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Geoffrey Hinton, Computer scientist. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-geoffrey-hinton source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Geoffrey Hinton, Geoffrey Hinton AI, Geoffrey Hinton quotes, Geoffrey Hinton statements, Geoffrey Hinton on AI, what Geoffrey Hinton said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Geoffrey Hinton, Computer scientist. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-geoffrey-hinton The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Geoffrey Hinton [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-geoffrey-hinton) Computer scientist · Independent ## Why now No headline this week names Geoffrey Hinton. ## What they said 6 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Geoffrey Hinton, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Sep 9, 2026 In the record · as compiled by Axios, statement · Warning "Stated a p(doom) estimate of 10 to 20 percent, with his own caveat that such estimates are guesses, as compiled by Axios" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/09/ai-doom-pdoom-kill-all-humans-anthropic) - Aug 15, 2025 In the record "For the owners of the companies, what's driving the research is short-term profits." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2025/08/15/godfather-of-ai-endgame-short-term-profit-humanity-future-superintelligence-risks/) - Aug 13, 2025 In the record "The right model is the only model we have of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing, which is a mother being controlled by her baby" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Events](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-events) · [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/tech/ai-geoffrey-hinton) - Oct 8, 2024 In the record "when we get things more intelligent than ourselves, no one really knows whether we're going to be able to control them" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Events](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-events) · [utoronto.ca](https://www.utoronto.ca/news/his-words-geoffrey-hinton-reflects-his-nobel-prize-win) - Oct 8, 2023 In the record "We're entering a period of great uncertainty where we're dealing with things we've never dealt with before." [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoffrey-hinton-ai-dangers-60-minutes-transcript/) - May 2, 2023 In the record "Sometimes I think it's as if aliens had landed and people haven't realized because they speak very good English." [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [technologyreview.com](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-google-why-scared-ai/) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Geoffrey%20Hinton#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Geoffrey Hinton ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Oct 8, 2024 ["when we get things more intelligent than ourselves, no one really knows whether we're going to be able to control them"](https://www.utoronto.ca/news/his-words-geoffrey-hinton-reflects-his-nobel-prize-win) - Aug 13, 2025 ["The right model is the only model we have of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing, which is a mother being..."](https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/tech/ai-geoffrey-hinton) - Aug 15, 2025 ["For the owners of the companies, what's driving the research is short-term profits."](https://fortune.com/2025/08/15/godfather-of-ai-endgame-short-term-profit-humanity-future-superintelligence-risks/) - Sep 9, 2026 [Stated a p(doom) estimate of 10 to 20 percent, with his own caveat that such estimates are guesses, as compiled by Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/09/ai-doom-pdoom-kill-all-humans-anthropic) - Oct 8, 2024 ["when we get things more intelligent than ourselves, no one really knows whether we're going to be able to control them"](https://www.utoronto.ca/news/his-words-geoffrey-hinton-reflects-his-nobel-prize-win) - Aug 13, 2025 ["The right model is the only model we have of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing, which is a mother being..."](https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/tech/ai-geoffrey-hinton) - May 2, 2023 ["Sometimes I think it's as if aliens had landed and people haven't realized because they speak very good English."](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-google-why-scared-ai/) - Oct 8, 2023 ["We're entering a period of great uncertainty where we're dealing with things we've never dealt with before."](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoffrey-hinton-ai-dangers-60-minutes-transcript/) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Geoffrey Hinton. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Geoffrey Hinton with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.