Geoffrey Hinton
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Position, range and evidence details
Preferred pace: -50; stated catastrophic-risk concern: 75. These are layout units, not percentages or rankings.
Pace range: -80 to -15; concern range: 50 to 95. Ranges show alternative editorial interpretations, not statistical confidence intervals.
Evidence clarity: medium. Basis: mixed. Implementation: public-advocacy.
Record status: Published record
What this status means
This is a published Atlas record with no open challenge recorded in this edition. It is not a guarantee that the sources are current or the interpretation is correct.
Status recorded: 2026-09-16. This is separate from the source-reading and actor-review dates.
Publication dates and source age
Sources counted: 2
Newest dated source: 2025-12-06
At least one source was published within the 18-month window.
Assessed at this edition's evidence cutoff: 2026-09-16. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-16.
Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
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What this position covers
Conditional controls on exceptionally capable AI in a coauthored policy paper. [1] [2]
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What to keep in mind
The proposal is collective and dated. Its control-risk warning is not a probability estimate or a claim that every kind of AI should stop. [1] [2]
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What they say about the pace of AI
Coauthors a call for conditional development halts when dangerous capabilities emerge. [1]
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Mitigation
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What they say about catastrophic risk
Coauthors a warning about irreversible loss of control and human extinction. [1]
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Societal-scale risks
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Context and qualifications
The interview publisher reports continued concern about humans losing control. [2]
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December 2025 episode summary
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The wider picture
Advocates conditional restraints on highly capable AI and warns about losing control. [1] [2]
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Reading the placement
This point summarizes the coauthored proposal; its range allows different readings. [1]
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Newer context
The December 2025 publisher summary describes his concern about control. His proposed protective instincts are an idea, not a demonstrated safeguard. [2]
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Sources and what we read
1. Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress (version 3)
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Publication dates and source age
Sources counted: 1
Newest dated source: 2023-10-26
Assessed at this edition's evidence cutoff: 2026-09-16. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-16.
Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
Read authors, societal-scale risks and governance/mitigation sections of version 3. Coauthorship supports a shared proposal, not identical personal beliefs or a present-day forecast.
2. The human cost of AI, with Geoffrey Hinton
Publication dates and source age
Sources counted: 1
Newest dated source: 2025-12-06
At least one source was published within the 18-month window.
Assessed at this edition's evidence cutoff: 2026-09-16. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-16.
Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
Read the interview publisher's summary and attributed control-risk quotation. The full audio/transcript was not reviewed; this record is reporting, not direct verification of every interview claim.
Edition and machine-readable evidence
Content version 0.22.0. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-16; this does not mean every source was read on that day.
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