“It now seems clear that a capacity to learn would be an integral feature of the core design of a system intended… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“superintelligence: A system that can do all that a human intellect can do, but much faster. By” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Before we end this subsection, there is one more thing that we should emphasize, which is that an artificial intelligence need not… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“The ultimate potential of machine intelligence is, of course, vastly greater than that of organic intelligence.” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Individual differences in intelligence might to a significant extent be attributable to variations in the number and nature of such slightly deleterious… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Collective superintelligence: A system composed of a large number of smaller intellects such that the system’s overall performance across many very general… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“We can tentatively define a superintelligence as any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“It now seems clear that a capacity to learn would be an integral feature of the core design of a system intended to attain… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“We can think of wisdom as the ability to get the important things approximately right.” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“The Google search engine is, arguably, the greatest AI system that has yet been built.” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“If the distance between base and apex for you is eight kilometers, then to reach my dwellings would take a million light-year ascent. The… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“If one wished to speak provocatively, one could say that individuals created from such proofread genomes might be “more human” than anybody currently alive,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Lie detectors (should it prove feasible to make ones that are reliable and easy to use) could reduce the scope for deception in human… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Rather, each brain develops its own idiosyncratic representations of higher-level content. Which particular neuronal assemblies are recruited to represent a particular concept depends on… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
