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Godfather Part II: Is AI Alive?! with Dr. Geoffrey Hinton

Godfather Part II: Is AI Alive?! with Dr. Geoffrey Hinton

Update: 2025-12-09
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This is Part II of The Godfather (of AI) trilogy — where we learn if we can survive what we’ve built with one of the men who actually helped build it: Turing Prize Winner and Nobel Laureate Dr. Geoffrey Hinton. If you missed Part I you can scroll down to how AI (and your brain) actually work. 




Today, the “Godfather of AI” returns to map out the risks and the weird hope of finding  “mama” in this machine. So is AI alive? And if so, is it alive like a weed, a bee, a baby, or something we don’t have words for yet? Can these systems really be conscious or sentient? What’s the real “p(doom)” number - 1%, 10–20%, or are we all just guessing into the fog? And if AI does take over, are we headed for extinction… or will we just be kept around as pets?




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Godfather Part II: Is AI Alive?! with Dr. Geoffrey Hinton

Godfather Part II: Is AI Alive?! with Dr. Geoffrey Hinton

Nayeema Raza