My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.

I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways, moral systems are simply things that we have programmed into ourselves, either through childhood or just through genetic, ingrained ideas. So the same thing applies when you talk about machines.

Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.

Whoever creates an artificial intelligence first has such a distinct military advantage over every other nation on the planet that they will forever, or they will at least indefinitely, rule the planet. It's very important that a nice country, a democratic country, develops A.I. first, to protect other A.I.'s from developing that might be negative, or evil, or used for military purposes.

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.

Science and technology can solve all the world's problems, and historically it has been shown to make the world better and better.

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.