{"data":{"slug":"geoffrey-hinton","etype":"person","name":"Geoffrey Hinton","cat":"Researcher","subtitle":"The 'godfather of AI' — Nobel laureate turned risk whistleblower.","summary":"Hinton kept neural networks alive through the winters, co-invented backpropagation practice and AlexNet's lineage, won the Turing Award (2018) and the Nobel Prize in Physics (2024) — then left Google in 2023 specifically to warn that the technology he built may pose existential risks, putting his estimate of catastrophe at double digits.","attrs":null,"kf":null,"aliases":["Hinton"],"ticker":null,"exchange":null,"hq":null,"founded":null,"website":null,"status":null,"region":null,"asof":"2026-01-15","sources":[{"url":"https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hinton/facts/","label":"Nobel Prize 2024"}]},"meta":{"found":true,"count":1,"served_from":"site cache (no live upstream calls)","as_of":"2026-10-14T04:59:08+00:00","disclaimer":"Research and information only — not investment advice. Structured records carry basis labels (vendor spec / reported / estimate); market quotes are delayed/indicative.","attribution":"Records compiled from vendor documentation, official filings and reputable public reporting; market quotes via financial data providers. See /data-sources."}}