The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep i…

- Nick Bostrom

We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.

- Nick Bostrom

In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and …

- Nick Bostrom

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

- Nick Bostrom

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

- Nick Bostrom

The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting ch…

- Nick Bostrom

Human nature is a work in progress.

- Nick Bostrom

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

- Nick Bostrom

Are you living in a computer simulation?

- Nick Bostrom