# Hinton’s Guess — the Machines Will Take Over by Geoffrey Hinton > "My guess is that they will take over – they'll be much, much more intelligent than people ever were." > **— Geoffrey Hinton**, *2023, University of Toronto alumni interview* *Verification Status: Editorially quarantined — `they` lacks its antecedent. Recover a complete, self-contained passage before promotion.* ## Sources and Context - **Full quotation and event context:** [Geoffrey Hinton talks responsible AI at a packed Convocation Hall event](https://alumni.utoronto.ca/news/geoffrey-hinton-talks-responsible-ai-packed-convocation-hall-event) — the full sentence identifies “they” as digital intelligences expected to become much more intelligent than people; the report also records Hinton's hope that the forecast is wrong. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Geoffrey Hinton|Geoffrey Hinton]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] - [[wiki/Uploaded Intelligence|Uploaded Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Substrate-Independent Evolution|Substrate-Independent Evolution]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Handoff|Civilizational Handoff]] - [[wiki/Computational Ecology|Computational Ecology]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "My guess is that they will take over – they'll be much, much more intelligent than people ever were." — Geoffrey Hinton, 2023, University of Toronto alumni interview https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-geoffrey-hinton-hintons-guess-machines-take ```