The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.