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Geoffrey Hinton

6 entries · May 2023 – October 2025

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive scientist often called a "godfather" of modern AI, whose work on backpropagation and neural networks in the 1980s helped found the deep-learning approach that later reshaped the field. In May 2023 he resigned from Google, where he had worked for around a decade, so that he could speak freely about the dangers of the technology he had spent his career building, saying the risk from systems seeking greater control now looked "serious and fairly close." In 2024 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with John Hopfield for that foundational work, and used the attention to repeat his warnings. He remains among the most prominent researchers voicing existential-risk concerns, a stance others in the field dispute.

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