“I think we're going to see AI get even better. It's already extremely good. We're going to see it having the capabilities to replace many, many jobs. It's already able to replace jobs in call centers, but it's going to be able to replace many other jobs.”
Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; 2024 Nobel laureate in Physics; Turing Award laureate
Said Dec 28, 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2026CNN, State of the Union, December 28, 2025 (reported by Fortune, December 28, 2025)
Hinton was asked for his 2026 predictions after calling 2025 a pivotal year; he tied the forecast to AI task length roughly doubling every seven months. The 2026 outcome is not yet judgeable.