AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton Says Future Jobs Won’t Come Close to Those Lost
Hinton has increasingly been vocal about the misplaced priorities of industry, which are driven more by replacing humans with cheaper AI systems than by scientific progress.
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British computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as the “Godfather of AI,” has reaffirmed predictions made by top tech leaders such as Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Bill Gates about the future impacts of AI.
During a discussion with Senator Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University, Hinton stated that the predictions of every job being transformed, humans no longer being needed for most things, and no need for humans to work in less than two decades, is likely, despite the extreme-sounding nature of it.
“It seems very likely to a large number of people that we will get massive unemployment caused by AI,” said Hinton. Recently, Goldman Sachs suggested that 6% to 7% of U.S. workers could lose their jobs because of AI adoption.
A major educational research organisation cited by the Independent reports that up to three million jobs may be lost over the next decade due to the increasing impact of AI and automation.
While tech leaders are also vocal about new jobs being created, which Hinton agrees with, he does not expect the new number of jobs to come close to the ones being eliminated.
“Trying to predict the future of it is going to be very difficult,” he said. “It’s a bit like when you drive in fog. You can see clearly for 100 yards, and at 200 yards, you can see nothing. Well, we can see clearly for a year or two, but 10 years out, we have no idea what’s going to happen.”
Hinton has increasingly been vocal about the misplaced priorities of industry, which are driven more by replacing humans with cheaper AI systems than by scientific progress.
“If you ask where these guys are going to get the roughly trillion dollars they’re investing in data centers and chips… one of the main sources of money is going to be by selling people AI that will do the work of workers much cheaper. And so these guys are really betting on AI replacing a lot of workers.”
In 2025, data centers experienced explosive growth, driven by AI, cloud computing, and digital demand, resulting in tech giants such as Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI announcing major data center projects in North America, the Middle East, India, Europe, and other regions.
The global data center market size was estimated at $347.60 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $652.01 billion by 2030, as per Grand View Research.
