Geoffrey Hinton Warns of AI Extinction Risk at Vegas
Turing Award winner tells 8,000 attendees that artificial general intelligence could arrive within 20 years.
Geoffrey Hinton delivered a keynote at Ai4 2025 on August 12, 2025, warning that AI poses existential risks to humanity. The Turing Award winner spoke at 8:00 AM EST to 8,000 attendees at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Core Warning on AGI Timeline
Hinton predicted artificial general intelligence could emerge within 20 years based on current transformer architecture advances. He explained that models like GPT-4 and Claude already demonstrate reasoning capabilities surpassing narrow AI from five years ago.
The researcher discussed his career developing backpropagation algorithms and deep learning techniques. These foundational technologies enabled the current generation of large language …
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