{"id":181571,"date":"2026-01-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/geoffrey-hinton-says-ai-will-cause-massive-unemployment-and-send-profits-soaring\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:41:40","slug":"geoffrey-hinton-says-ai-will-cause-massive-unemployment-and-send-profits-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/geoffrey-hinton-says-ai-will-cause-massive-unemployment-and-send-profits-soaring\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Hinton says AI will cause massive unemployment and send profits soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/article\/godfather-ai-geoffrey-hinton-massive-unemployment-soaring-profits-capitalism-hyperscalers\/\">Geoffrey Hinton says AI will cause massive unemployment and send profits soaring<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/article\/godfather-ai-geoffrey-hinton-massive-unemployment-soaring-profits-capitalism-hyperscalers\/\">https:\/\/fortune.com\/article\/godfather-ai-geoffrey-hinton-massive-unemployment-soaring-profits-capitalism-hyperscalers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"fortune.com\">fortune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geoffrey Hinton, a prominent AI pioneer dubbed the \u201cgodfather of AI,\u201d predicts that AI will lead to significant unemployment while greatly increasing profits for the wealthy.<\/li>\n<li>He believes AI will disproportionately benefit the wealthy at the expense of the lower-income populace, reflecting inherent capitalist structures.<\/li>\n<li>Hinton dismisses universal basic income as a solution, arguing it doesn&#8217;t address the intrinsic human value of having a job. <\/li>\n<li>While acknowledging some roles, notably in healthcare, may be safe, he believes AI will take over simple, routinized jobs.<\/li>\n<li>Hinton warns of AI risks, including misuse for harmful purposes and long-term threats from potential superintelligence.<\/li>\n<li>He shared anecdotes on his personal use of AI, including a humorous account of how a former girlfriend used it during their breakup.<\/li>\n<li>Hinton clarified that he left Google not to speak freely about AI risks, but because he felt it was time to retire and watch Netflix content.<\/li>\n<li>The uncertainty about AI\u2019s future underscores both its immense potential and its inherent dangers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Hinton says AI will cause massive unemployment and send profits soaring https:\/\/fortune.com\/article\/godfather-ai-geoffrey-hinton-massive-unemployment-soaring-profits-capitalism-hyperscalers\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2188261416-e1757181693659.jpg?resize=1200,600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181573,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181571\/revisions\/181573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}