You cannot predict the future.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.