# Superintelligence Is a Situation Humanity Has Never Faced by Geoffrey Hinton
> "Super intelligence will be a new situation that never happened before."
> **— Geoffrey Hinton**, *2023, Collision conference remarks*
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- **Editorial boundary repair:** The previous readable excerpt was "super intelligence will be a new situation that never happened before". Its initial capitalization and/or terminal punctuation is now adjusted for standalone reading; no wording or substantive qualification was added. The linked source above remains the publication audit trail.
- **Full quotation and context:** [Risks of artificial intelligence must be considered as the technology evolves](https://www.utoronto.ca/news/risks-artificial-intelligence-must-be-considered-technology-evolves-geoffrey-hinton) — The University of Toronto identifies the Collision conference and preserves the surrounding labor and reasoning discussion.
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