{"podcast":{"title":"Big Technology Podcast","slug":"big-technology-podcast-197340","podcast_index_feed_id":197340,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LI3617121267","website_url":"https://www.bigtechnology.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/e70f9594-937b-11ec-bfe0-2b4c46de3cc3/image/ac86ab8de3e6d78450970f49c51a117b.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Alex Kantrowitz","episode_count":534,"summary":"The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T10:21:29.472576+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-technology-podcast-197340"},"episode":{"title":"AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried","slug":"ai-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-ai-is-conscious-superintelligence-is-coming-and-we-should-be-worried","published_at":"2026-06-03T19:37:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-technology-podcast-197340/ai-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-ai-is-conscious-superintelligence-is-coming-and-we-should-be-worried","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-technology-podcast-197340","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/t7yC0rGPUqahTF4et8YD/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/AMPP2236404252.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/t7yC0rGPUqahTF4et8YD/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/AMPP2236404252.mp3","summary":"Geoffrey Hinton is an AI pioneer, a Nobel Prize winner, and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Hinton joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss AI’s rapid progress, why he believes today’s systems already understand us, and why he thinks superintelligence may arrive sooner than many expect. Tune in to hear Hinton explain why the technology has advanced faster than he anticipated, and lay out the risks he believes society is not doing enough to address. We also cover AI-driven job loss, the limits of corporate self-regulation, Anthropic and OpenAI’s safety challenges, emotional attachment to chatbots, information collapse, and whether future AI systems can be designed to care about humans. Hit play for a fascinating conversation with one of AI’s founding figures about where the technology is heading and what it could mean for all of us. Join the Big Technology AI Summit in San Francisco on June 18: summit.bigtechnology.com --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Geoffrey Hinton is an AI pioneer, a Nobel Prize winner, and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Hinton joins Big Technology Podcast to disc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3443,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/big-technology-podcast-197340/episodes/ai-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-ai-is-conscious-superintelligence-is-coming-and-we-should-be-worried/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-technology-podcast-197340/ai-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-ai-is-conscious-superintelligence-is-coming-and-we-should-be-worried.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}