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

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

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

We're endangered by our own success.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

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.