Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title “the Godfather of AI”.[8] He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.

In this interview, he discusses something he rarely says out loud: he believes AI is already conscious. Not eventually. Not theoretically. Already.