Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

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

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

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

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

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.