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

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.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

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

So much technology, so little talent.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.