I advocate as a futurist and also as a member of the Transhumanist Party, that we never let artificial intelligence completely go on its own. I just don't see why the human species needs an artificial entity, an artificial intelligence… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience. — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their irregularity-strangled English… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
In the future it's very possible you could have an artificial intelligence system that can run the country better than a human being. Because… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being. — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“From our first day alive on this planet, they began teaching society everything it knows and experiences. It was all brainwashing bullshit. Their trio… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the simulation theory. I tend to think that most of our existence, if not all of it, is part of… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“What prompts alarm in me is how you and your government want to ruin not only the potential of this of this country, but… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Whoever creates an artificial intelligence first has such a distinct military advantage over every other nation on the planet that they will forever, or… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
What I advocate for is that, as soon as we get to the point when artificial intelligence can take off and be as smart,… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Once you've created an intelligence so smart, the real job of that intelligence is to protect itself from other intelligences becoming more intelligent than… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
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. — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
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… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is that all… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
