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AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Geoffrey Hinton is an AI pioneer, a Nobel Prize winner, and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Hinton joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss AI’s rapid progress, why he believes today’s systems already understand us, and why he thinks superintelligence may arrive sooner than many expect. Tune in to hear Hinton explain why the technology has advanced faster than he anticipated, and lay out the risks he believes society is not doing enough to address. We also cover AI-driven job loss, the limits of corporate self-regulation, Anthropic and OpenAI’s safety challenges, emotional attachment to chatbots, information collapse, and whether future AI systems can be designed to care about humans. Hit play for a fascinating conversation with one of AI’s founding figures about where the technology is heading and what it could mean for all of us.
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Chapters:
0:00: Intro.
1:34: Hinton’s role in deep learning.
3:33: AI is moving faster than expected.
4:18: When superintelligence might arrive.
6:00: Are we already near AGI?
9:10: Do AI systems really understand us?
10:22: Why Hinton thinks AI may be conscious.
13:09: Why Hinton became worried about AI
21:58: What surprised Hinton most.
26:50: Hinton revisits his radiologist prediction.
35:06: AI and self-preservation.
41:59: Why regulation is the steering wheel.
Anthropic Just Warned Everyone About Claude (It’s Evolving)
Anthropic just published a major warning about AI self-improvement, and the numbers behind it are hard to ignore. Claude is now writing most of Anthropic’s code, reviewing code, running experiments, and helping speed up the creation of better AI systems. OpenAI is warning about the same trend, and the race may be moving faster than anyone expected.
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Anthropic’s warning about AI self-improvement and Claude building AI
SOURCE: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/r… report on Anthropic’s call for a coordinated AI slowdown SOURCE: https://www.reuters.com/business/anth… Claude agents running automated weak-to-strong AI safety research SOURCE: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/.… Anthropic’s research post on automated alignment researchers SOURCE: https://www.anthropic.com/research/au… OpenAI’s blueprint warning about frontier AI governance SOURCE: https://openai.com/index/frontier-saf… OpenAI’s full governance blueprint PDF SOURCE: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/25752ecb-0… METR report on measuring AI agents completing longer tasks SOURCE: https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-meas… Business Insider report on Anthropic employees and Claude changing coding work SOURCE: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthr… 🚨 Why It Matters Anthropic is warning that AI may already be entering the early stage of building better AI. Claude is writing code, reviewing code, fixing bugs, running experiments, and helping researchers move faster. The big shift is simple: humans may still choose the goals, but AI is starting to handle more of the actual work behind the next generation of AI. #ai #anthropic #claude.
Reuters report on Anthropic’s call for a coordinated AI slowdown.
SOURCE: https://www.reuters.com/business/anth…
Claude agents running automated weak-to-strong AI safety research.
SOURCE: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/.…
Anthropic’s research post on automated alignment researchers.
SOURCE: https://www.anthropic.com/research/au…
OpenAI’s blueprint warning about frontier AI governance.
SOURCE: https://openai.com/index/frontier-saf…
OpenAI’s full governance blueprint PDF
SOURCE: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/25752ecb-0…
METR report on measuring AI agents completing longer tasks.
SOURCE: https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-meas…
Business Insider report on Anthropic employees and Claude changing coding work.
SOURCE: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthr…
🚨 Why It Matters.
Anthropic is warning that AI may already be entering the early stage of building better AI. Claude is writing code, reviewing code, fixing bugs, running experiments, and helping researchers move faster. The big shift is simple: humans may still choose the goals, but AI is starting to handle more of the actual work behind the next generation of AI.
#ai #anthropic #claude
Location of Body Fat Linked to Speed of Brain Aging
Where fat is distributed across the body—not merely the total amount—significantly and independently influences brain structure, brain function, and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older adults. This new study was published in Nature Mental Health.
Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control.
The San Francisco-based company, which makes the Claude family of AI models, said in a report that a worldwide slowdown in cutting-edge AI development would “likely be a good thing” — but warned that if only one company stopped, rivals would simply race ahead.
“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” it said.
