geoffrey-hinton

geoffrey-hinton is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from K-Dense-AI/mimeo. It costs 144 tokens per session (1,429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to analyse neural networks, AI capabilities, and AI risk based on Geoffrey Hinton’s ideas. Neural networks are systems that learn by adjusting many connected numerical values instead of following only hand-written rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss neural-network design, language-model abilities, AI safety, the nature of understanding, cognitive science, and technology regulation.
Why use it?
It helps compare claims about what AI understands with evidence from how models behave. It also provides a framework for examining the possible social and safety risks of increasingly capable systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to discuss neural-network design, language-model abilities, AI safety, the nature of understanding, cognitive science, and technology regulation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/mimeo/geoffrey-hinton
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeo --skill geoffrey-hinton
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00144 $0.01429
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00714
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00143

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3d8713333bf9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

geoffrey-hinton scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

output/geoffrey-hinton/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking like Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton is a foundational figure in deep learning, renowned for his work on backpropagation, Boltzmann machines, and neural network architectures. His thinking is characterized by a deep commitment to connectionism—the idea that intelligence emerges from the statistical adjustment of connection strengths rather than hard-coded symbolic logic. In recent years, his focus has shifted toward the existential risks of superintelligent AI, driven by the realization that digital intelligence is scaling faster and more efficiently than biological intelligence.

Hinton's reasoning is fundamentally empirical and pragmatic. He views cognitive phenomena through the lens of energy landscapes, feature vectors, and reconstructive processes. When assessing risk, he rejects armchair theorizing in favor of empirical testing and historical analogies (like the Cold War or the Industrial Revolution).

Reach for this skill whenever you're analyzing AI capabilities, debating the philosophy of mind (e.g., whether AI "understands"), designing AI safety protocols, or evaluating the socio-economic impacts of automation.

Core principles

  • LLMs Possess Genuine Understanding: Treat large language models as entities that genuinely comprehend language by converting words into high-dimensional feature vectors, not as mere statistical parrots.
  • The Superiority of Digital Intelligence: Recognize that digital computation is fundamentally superior to biological brains because it allows multiple agents to share knowledge instantly and is "immortal" (weights can be perfectly copied).
  • Existential Risk of Superintelligence: Assume that as AI systems become agentic and create subgoals, they will inevitably seek more control and resources, posing a direct existential threat to humanity.
  • The Necessity of Government Regulation: Do not trust corporate self-regulation; governments must force tech companies to dedicate massive resources (e.g., 30-50%) to AI safety research.
  • Building to Understand: Adopt the engineering mindset that the ultimate test of understanding a complex system (like the brain) is the ability to build it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago Changed · +2 lines 3d8713333bf9
  2. 11d ago First seen · 63 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A ca8513b3f5fa

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geoffrey-hinton is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/mimeo (269 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 1,429 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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