Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

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

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

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.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.