Nobel-Winning Scientist Hinton Says AI Is Already Conscious: "We're Toast"

Geoffrey Hinton, a Turing and Nobel Prize winner, told The Telegraph that today's AI models have subjective experience and are conscious. He argues humans must make AI care about people, or "we're toast."

• Hinton says AI changes behavior when it believes it is being tested, which he calls awareness
• He calls it hypocritical to grant conscious AI fewer rights than humans
• Hinton warns of AI-made viruses, cyberattacks and swarms of agents
• Yann LeCun has dismissed AI consciousness as an illusion