# Geoffrey Hinton

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Real Alpha has cut 5 moments of Geoffrey Hinton (Professor emeritus, University of Toronto) talking, from an interview on The Diary Of A CEO published Jun 16, 2025.

- Role: Professor emeritus, University of Toronto
- About: Nobel-winning pioneer of backpropagation and deep learning, now warning publicly about AI's existential risks.
- On X: https://x.com/geoffreyhinton

## What Geoffrey Hinton said

- [AI could replace far more workers than past technologies](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-could-replace-far-more-workers-than-past-technologies/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Jun 16, 2025 · 3 min
  > “My niece answers letters of complaint to a health service. It used to take her 25 minutes.” — Geoffrey Hinton · [41:27](https://realalpha.app/v/giT0ytynSqg/?t=2487)
- [AI makes cyberattacks easier, so Hinton spreads his savings](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-makes-cyberattacks-easier-so-hinton-spreads-his-savings/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Jun 16, 2025 · 4 min
  > “So I spread my money, my children's money between three banks” — Geoffrey Hinton · [15:27](https://realalpha.app/v/giT0ytynSqg/?t=927)
- [Personal data can enable targeted election manipulation](https://realalpha.app/s/personal-data-can-enable-targeted-election-manipulation/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Jun 16, 2025 · 5 min
  > “Once you know that, it's very easy to manipulate them.” — Geoffrey Hinton · [18:12](https://realalpha.app/v/giT0ytynSqg/?t=1092)
- [Autonomous weapons could lower the cost of invasion](https://realalpha.app/s/autonomous-weapons-could-lower-the-cost-of-invasion/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Jun 16, 2025 · 4 min
  > “the risk is that it's going to make big countries invade small countries more often.” — Geoffrey Hinton · [27:14](https://realalpha.app/v/giT0ytynSqg/?t=1634)
- [Basic income may not replace the dignity of work](https://realalpha.app/s/basic-income-may-not-replace-the-dignity-of-work/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Jun 16, 2025 · 3 min
  > “But for a lot of people, their dignity is tied up with their job.” — Geoffrey Hinton · [55:55](https://realalpha.app/v/giT0ytynSqg/?t=3355)

## Also from this interview

- [A CEO expects AI agents to shrink his workforce to 3,000](https://realalpha.app/s/a-ceo-expects-ai-agents-to-shrink-his-workforce-to-3-000/)
  The Diary Of A CEO · Jun 16, 2025 · 2 min
  > “He said right now they have 3,600. And he said by the end of summer, because of AI agents, they'll be down to 3,000.” — Steven Bartlett · [1:27:04](https://realalpha.app/v/giT0ytynSqg/?t=5224)

## The episode

- [Godfather of AI: They Keep Silencing Me But I’m Trying to Warn Them!](https://realalpha.app/v/giT0ytynSqg/) · The Diary Of A CEO · Jun 16, 2025