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

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

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

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.

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

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.