{"id":238575,"date":"2026-06-08T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/geoffrey-hinton-just-said-ai-is-already-conscious"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:05:15","slug":"geoffrey-hinton-just-said-ai-is-already-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/geoffrey-hinton-just-said-ai-is-already-conscious","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Hinton Just Said AI Is Already Conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uN6tKUb7AxI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Full episode: \u2022 AI pioneer geoffrey hinton: AI is consciou\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Hinton \u2014 the Nobel Prize-winning physicist widely regarded as the Godfather of AI \u2014 sits down with Alex Kantrowitz on the Big Technology Podcast to discuss something he rarely says out loud: he believes AI is already conscious. Not eventually. Not theoretically. Already.<br \/> In this clip, Hinton dismantles the popular \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full episode: \u2022 AI pioneer geoffrey hinton: AI is consciou\u2026 Geoffrey Hinton \u2014 the Nobel Prize-winning physicist widely regarded as the Godfather of AI \u2014 sits down with Alex Kantrowitz on the Big Technology Podcast to discuss something he rarely says out loud: he believes AI is already conscious. Not eventually. Not theoretically. Already. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}