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

Hinton's Nobel banquet speech of 10 December 2024 states that there is now evidence that, if digital beings more intelligent than humans are created by companies motivated by short-term profits, safety will not be the top priority.

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What it connects

Banquet speech, Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2024 → contests → Economic incentives will produce safety

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

Banquet speech, Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2024contests ↓Economic incentives will produce safety

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2024-12-10 · event Records dated 2024 →
Role: Contesting
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Engagement: States the contrary. States the contrary of the proposition without engaging the market or liability mechanism.

Scope and limitsThe speech does not say what the evidence is.

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

“But we now have evidence that if they are created by companies motivated by short-term profits, our safety will not be the top priority.”

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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.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Geoffrey Hinton, “Geoffrey Hinton – Banquet speech”, 2024-12-10.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (24 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. No human editorial review.

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Record ID rd-r17-hinton-2024-nobel-banquet