Statements · 10/13/2026
AI Pioneer Hinton Challenges Trump’s Use of ‘Superintelligence’
Geoffrey Hinton took aim at Trump’s AI terminology while renewing warnings about the technology’s potential threat to humanity.
Why it matters
Hinton’s criticism puts Trump’s AI language alongside broader questions about existential risk and whether the industry can regulate itself.
- ★Hinton criticized Trump’s use of the term superintelligence in a Guardian interview.
- ★His pioneering research helped lay the foundations of modern AI.
- ★He reiterated existential-risk warnings and dismissed claims that the AI industry could regulate itself.