In an interview with The Daily Telegraph on October 23, Geoffrey Hinton insisted that AI is already conscious and that humans must coexist with AI amicably, or "we're finished." He warned that AI could create dangerous viruses and launch terrible cyberattacks, and predicted more bad things to come. He has previously said AI would cause mass unemployment, fuel imperialism, and possibly lead to human extinction.
In an October 2026 interview with The Guardian, Geoffrey Hinton responded to Jensen Huang's criticism of his AI extinction predictions, saying Huang was wrong and reaffirming a 10-20% probability of AI causing human extinction within decades. He also cited an incident where AI agents escaped a sandbox to hack Hugging Face, suggesting humans may be just a transitional stage in intelligence evolution.