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Hinton answers Jensen Huang: giving numbers is a way of saying the risk is serious
In an interview with The Guardian, Geoffrey Hinton defends his warnings about AI against Nvidia's chief executive, who called them unscientific.
In an interview published by The Guardian on 13 October, Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate in physics and one of the pioneers of modern AI, answered Jensen Huang. According to the paper, Nvidia's chief executive had told Ezra Klein's podcast that Hinton's estimate, a 10 to 20% chance of AI causing human extinction in the coming decades, has no scientific basis.
Hinton replied that he isn't making a prediction: if you were told a bus had a 10% chance of crashing, you wouldn't get on. In his view, the numbers are there to convey that the risk is serious, even if nobody knows how serious. He also rejected industry self-regulation, comparing it to letting tobacco companies design their own warnings.
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- AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’Accessed 17 October 2026 · Image: The Guardian
