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

Human nature is a work in progress.

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

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

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

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

The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face.