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> [In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and other things we haven't even thought of yet. And those new powers will unlock wonderful opportunities, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/in-the-next-century-we-will-be-inventing-radical-new-technologies/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

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## More by Nick Bostrom

> [“It now seems clear that a capacity to learn would be an integral feature of the core design of a system intended to attain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/it-now-seems-clear-that-a-capacity-to-learn-would-be-an-integral/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/the-challenge-presented-by-the-prospect-of-superintelligence-and-how/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/for-healthy-adult-people-the-really-big-thing-we-can-foresee-are-ways/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [“We can think of wisdom as the ability to get the important things approximately right.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/we-can-think-of-wisdom-as-the-ability-to-get-the-important-things/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [“The Google search engine is, arguably, the greatest AI system that has yet been built.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/the-google-search-engine-is-arguably-the-greatest-ai-system-that-has/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/far-from-being-the-smartest-possible-biological-species-we-are/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/if-the-distance-between-base-and-apex-for-you-is-eight-kilometers/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [ “There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks \[to humanity\].” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/there-is-more-scholarly-work-on-the-life-habits-of-the-dung-fly-than/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [“If one wished to speak provocatively, one could say that individuals created from such proofread genomes might be “more human” than anybody currently alive,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/if-one-wished-to-speak-provocatively-one-could-say-that-individuals/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/when-we-are-headed-the-wrong-way-the-last-thing-we-need-is-progress/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [“Lie detectors (should it prove feasible to make ones that are reliable and easy to use) could reduce the scope for deception in human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/lie-detectors-should-it-prove-feasible-to-make-ones-that-are-reliable/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/rather-each-brain-develops-its-own-idiosyncratic-representations-of/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [“Consider an AI that has hedonism as its final goal, and which would therefore like to tile the universe with “hedonium” (matter organized in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/consider-an-ai-that-has-hedonism-as-its-final-goal-and-which-would/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [“Utopia is the hope that the scattered fragments of good that we come across from time to time in our lives can be put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/utopia-is-the-hope-that-the-scattered-fragments-of-good-that-we-come/)

[Nick Bostrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bostrom/)

> [“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bostrom/thus-the-first-ultraintelligent-machine-is-the-last-invention-that/)

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