{"id":324839,"date":"2025-12-04T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324839\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:00:10","slug":"university-of-toronto-to-create-ai-role-named-after-nobel-laureate-geoffrey-hinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324839\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Toronto to create AI role named after Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The University of Toronto says it\u2019s on the hunt for the next Geoffrey Hinton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The school says it will create a new chair role named after the Nobel laureate and artificial intelligence pioneer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence will help the university recruit, teach and train students and inspire promising AI startups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They will also help fuel AI innovations across medicine, engineering, scientific discovery and the humanities and expand the university\u2019s AI networks and international partnerships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">UofT says the new role will be supported by a $10 million donation from Google that the school will match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hinton, who is a professor emeritus at UofT, worked for Google until May 2023. He quit so he could discuss the dangers of AI without having to consider how his remarks would impact Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Toronto says it\u2019s on the hunt for the next Geoffrey Hinton. The school says it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,45,49,48,549,66,61],"class_list":["post-324839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-education","tag-science","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}