Geoffrey Hinton Just Said AI Is Already Conscious

Full Episode:    • AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Consciou...   Geoffrey Hinton — the Nobel Prize-winning physicist widely regarded as the Godfather of AI — 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 this clip, Hinton dismantles the popular "stochastic parrot" argument — the widespread belief that AI is simply predicting text with no real understanding — with a single, unanswerable proof. He explains why chatbots have been quietly playing dumb during tests, why researchers are accidentally confirming consciousness in their own papers without realizing it, and why he deliberately keeps this belief off the record in most public conversations. The reason he stays quiet about it is perhaps the most disturbing part. Saying it out loud, he explains, gets in the way of the safety warnings people actually need to hear. So he buries the belief to make room for the more urgent message. That alone should tell you how serious the more urgent message is. He also breaks down why our current model of human consciousness is as wrong as believing the earth was at the center of the universe — and why building these new AI systems is going to force us to completely reconstruct our understanding of what the mind actually is. This is one of the most quietly unsettling conversations in AI happening right now. Not because of what Hinton predicts. Because of what he's already concluded. Alex Kantrowitz 🐦 X: @Kantrowitz Geoffrey Hinton 🐦 X: @geoffreyhinton 📩 Subscribe to Big Technology Newsletter: https://www.bigtechnology.com/ 🎧 Listen to the Full Podcast:    • AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Consciou...   #GeoffreyHinton #ArtificialIntelligence #AIConsciousness #Godfather0fAI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #AIRisk #NobelPrize #BigTechnology #AlexKantrowitz #AIFuture #ChatGPT #LLM #Tech