Jun 1, 2026

Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize–winning pioneer of deep learning, joins Sana’s founder and CEO, Joel Hellermark, for a candid conversation about the future of AI, what it means to create “beings” rather than tools, and how we navigate the next great intellectual revolution. From fast‑learning neural architectures to the ethics of training data, Hinton offers a rare, unfiltered look at where this all might be heading.

What’s in this video: —How evolution, development, learning, and now AI form ever‑faster “loops” of intelligence —Why Hinton thinks AI may soon outstrip human mathematicians and reach much higher levels of intelligence —The coming “third revolution” after Copernicus and Darwin: humans no longer being the only beings around —How language‑model “self‑play” and internal inconsistencies could let AI improve with little new data —The risks of a purely profit‑driven race for smarter AI and why we must design “beings that care about us” —Hinton’s architectural bet on fast‑changing weights and brain‑like synapses beyond current transformer hardware

Hinton argues that the real stakes of AI are not only economic or technical, but civilizational. As we move from being the only intelligent beings to coexisting with artificial ones, we face a choice: build systems that are merely powerful, or build beings that genuinely care about human flourishing.

Recorded live at Sana AI Summit 2026, New York, May 21st, 2026. Subscribe for more insights on AI and the future of technology.Geoffrey Hinton and Joel Hellermark explore the evolution of artificial intelligence and its potential to surpass human cognition. They discuss the future of model architectures, the importance of training data, and the societal implications of developing autonomous systems that possess capabilities beyond traditional computing.Summary

How this was made