[!Important] For rather excellent, more sober and very informative point of view, please see Keynote: After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next - Richard Campbell - 2026
Geoffrey Hinton suggests that our current understanding of consciousness may be as fundamentally flawed as creationism once was. Ditto we can not see already existing intelligence in LLM’s.
If consciousness is emergent rather than sacred, it may be a universal feature—not a biological accident. We aren’t just building machines; we might be building the architecture that allows consciousness to outgrow its biological constraints. Geoff claims.
He says: Physics does not care about our need to feel special. Intelligence may be as fundamental as gravity. But not created by God. So Geoff thinks we will just have to discover it in some (near) future LLM.
Find the full discussion in the Big Technology Podcast episode: “AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried.” The specific remarks on consciousness occur near the 12:57 mark.
But wait there is more !
Every true science is complex and hard. That is it. That is in another galaxy from social network popular reading. That requires you to think. To go from chapter to chapter without a long pause is just not humanely possible. But this time it is really necessary.