For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion.

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

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.