Claim · 2024-12-10 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Hinton's Nobel banquet speech of 10 December 2024 states that a longer-term existential threat will arise when digital beings more intelligent than humans are created, that it is unknown whether humans can stay in control, and that research is needed on preventing them from wanting to take control.

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What it connects

Banquet speech, Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2024 → articulates → Existential risk from misalignment or loss of control

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

Banquet speech, Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2024articulates ↓Existential risk from misalignment or loss of control

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Date: 2024-12-10 · event Records dated 2024 →
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsA short speech; it also lists short-term risks (surveillance, phishing, bioweapons, lethal autonomous weapons) as requiring urgent attention, without ranking them against the existential threat.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Geoffrey Hinton – Banquet speech

NobelPrize.org (Nobel Prize Outreach) · 2024-12-10

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Source excerpt

“a longer term existential threat that will arise when we create digital beings that are more intelligent than ourselves.”

Location in source Paragraph 3

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Geoffrey Hinton
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 421826f0c76525d10a9420f032f1b8ea684e44baaf8b3fe8c4ff1ae2ce981fb0). The Nobel Foundation's published text of the speech; current page. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Geoffrey Hinton, “Geoffrey Hinton – Banquet speech”, 2024-12-10.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (19 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Shortened to keep the speech within its quotation limit. The next sentence reads, in paraphrase, that we do not know whether we can stay in control. No human editorial review.

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Record ID rd-r08-hinton-2024-nobel-banquet