Can We Control AI? with Geoffrey Hinton

Oct 6, 2026

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We asked Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning Godfather of AI: what happens when AI gets smarter than us? Can it unlearn bad behaviours? Break out and release a model that even Sam Altman acknowledges is dangerous? Under what circumstances can we trust Sam, Demis or Dario? And is the Trump administration and US government at all equipped to handle this moment?

Also: what does AI have to do with The Beatles … or beetles, rather. This is Part 3 of our Godfather of AI series you can find

Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/Px3HfB2UkyU?si=W5A6S0X7FBgGTA8p

Part 2 here: https://youtu.be/oMpNIz9AIu0?si=KYZHdN2U-tDNejnZ

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