And that means that you could make 10,000 copies of the same knowledge
Geoffrey Hinton
On The Godfather in Conversation: Geoffrey Hinton on digital intelligence and AI risks↗ ·
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In a long-form interview, Hinton explains how digital intelligence differs from biological learning when the same knowledge can be duplicated at scale.
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AI-assisted editorial framing · not reportingThe line is memorable because it turns an abstract property of software—copying—into a claim about knowledge itself. That framing makes the scaling argument intuitive, but it also compresses harder questions about what counts as the same knowledge, who controls the copies, and what guardrails survive replication.
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