Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

We're endangered by our own success.

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

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