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.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

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

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

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