In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and other things we haven't even thought of yet. And those new powers will unlock wonderful opportunities, but they might also bring with them certain risks. And we have no track record of surviving those risks. So if there are big existential risks, I think they are going to come from our own activities and mostly from our own inventiveness and creativity.
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
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
We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.
When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress. - Nick Bostrom
When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.
In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and … - Nick Bostrom
In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and …
Human nature is a work in progress. - Nick Bostrom
Human nature is a work in progress.
Are you living in a computer simulation? - Nick Bostrom
Are you living in a computer simulation?
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. - Nick Bostrom
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.
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
The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting ch…
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data. - Nick Bostrom
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
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