AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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As artificial intelligence advances at unprecedented speed, Jon is joined by Geoffrey Hinton, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and the "Godfather of AI," to understand what we've actually created. Together, they explore how neural networks and AI systems function, assess the current capabilities of the technology, and examine Hinton's concerns about where AI is headed. This podcast episode is brought to you by: MINT MOBILE - Make the switch at https://mintmobile.com/TWS GROUND NEWS - Go to https://groundnews.com/stewart to see how any news story is being framed by news outlets around the world and across the political spectrum. Use this link to get 40% off unlimited access with the Vantage Subscription. INDEED - Speed up your hiring with Indeed. Go to https://indeed.com/weekly to get a $75 sponsored job credit. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast> TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.5	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the weekly show podcast. My name is John Stewart. I'm going to be hosting you today. It's a, what is there? Wednesday, October 8th. I don't know what's going to happen later on in the day. But we're going to be out tomorrow. But today's episode, I just want to say very quickly, today's episode, we are talking to someone known as the godfather of AI, a gentleman
1:28.2	by the name of Jeffrey Hinton, who has been developing the type of technology that has turned
1:34.1	into AI since the 70s. And I want to let you know. So we talk about it. The first part of it,
1:42.3	though, he gives us this breakdown of kind of what it
1:45.9	actually is, which for me was unbelievably helpful. We get into the, it will kill us all part,
1:55.3	but it was important for my understanding to sort of set the scene. So I hope you find that part as interesting as I did because, uh, for my understanding to sort of set the scene. So I, I hope you find that part as
2:02.4	interesting as I did because, uh, it, uh, it, it expanded my understanding of what this
2:11.1	technology is of how it's going to be utilized of what some of those dangers might be in a,
2:15.6	in a really interesting way. So I don't, I will not hold it up any longer.
2:20.2	Let us get to our guest for this podcast.
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