Interview

Few people have done more to build modern AI, and fewer still have turned around to warn the world about it as loudly. Geoffrey Hinton spent half a century making neural networks work when most of the field thought they never would, and then - at the point of maximum credibility - left his job at Google to say he was worried about where the technology is heading. This page is a growing, chronological index of his interviews, talks, and public appearances, with enough context around each to know what you are clicking into. ...

Most founders of Sergey Brin’s vintage and net worth do not come back to write code. Brin did. He stepped away from Google in 2019, and when the frontier of AI started moving faster than anyone expected, he returned in 2023 to work hands-on on Gemini - by his own account because staying retired through this particular moment in computing would have been a mistake. That makes his public commentary an unusually direct read on how Google sees the race, and it is why I keep this page. It is a growing, chronological index of his interviews, talks, and appearances, with enough context around each to know what you are clicking into. ...