{"id":240679,"date":"2026-07-11T19:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-godfather-of-ai-a-new-species-is-emerging-and-we-cant-stop-it-geoffrey-hinton-nobel"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:04:28","slug":"the-godfather-of-ai-a-new-species-is-emerging-and-we-cant-stop-it-geoffrey-hinton-nobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-godfather-of-ai-a-new-species-is-emerging-and-we-cant-stop-it-geoffrey-hinton-nobel","title":{"rendered":"The Godfather of AI: A New Species Is Emerging \u2014 And We Can\u2019t Stop It | Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel)"},"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\/Sb_zlOtmrdM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this exclusive, long-form interview, Turing Award laureate Geoffrey Hinton\u2014often called the \u201cGodfather of Deep Learning\u201d\u2014opens up about the promise and peril of advanced AI. Hinton explains why he left Google, how close we really are to artificial general intelligence (AGI), and what guard-rails governments, researchers, and ordinary citizens can put in place today to keep powerful neural networks from going off the rails.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications so you won\u2019t miss any of our future episodes \u25ba \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thisistheworldofficial\">@thisistheworldofficial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview with Yann LeCun on AI and machine learning: \u2022 Father of AI: AI Needs PHYSICS to EVOLVE |\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist best known as the \u201cgodfather of deep learning.\u201d As a professor at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Google Brain, he pioneered modern neural networks\u2014work that earned him the 2018 Turing Award alongside Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio. Since leaving Google in 2023, Hinton has focused on warning about the societal and existential risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this exclusive, long-form interview, Turing Award laureate Geoffrey Hinton\u2014often called the \u201cGodfather of Deep Learning\u201d\u2014opens up about the promise and peril of advanced AI. Hinton explains why he left Google, how close we really are to artificial general intelligence (AGI), and what guard-rails governments, researchers, and ordinary citizens can put in place today to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240679","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=240679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}