Nick Bostrom

“Even without newfangled brain technologies, some forms of deception might become harder to practice thanks to increased availability of many kinds of…

— Nick Bostrom

Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had…

— Nick Bostrom

“The traditional illustration of the direct rule-based approach is the “three laws of robotics” concept, formulated by science fiction author Isaac Asimov…

— Nick Bostrom

“Quality superintelligence: A system that is at least as fast as a human mind and vastly qualitatively smarter. As”

— Nick Bostrom

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

— Nick Bostrom

The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular,…

— Nick Bostrom

Human nature is a work in progress.

— Nick Bostrom

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next…

— Nick Bostrom

“Human life, at its best, is fantastic. I’m asking you to create something even greater. Life that is truly humane.”

— Nick Bostrom

“One can speculate that the tardiness and wobbliness of humanity's progress on many of the "eternal problems" of philosophy are due to…

— Nick Bostrom

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

— Nick Bostrom

How can we trace out the links between actions that people take today and really long-term outcomes for humanity - outcomes that…

— Nick Bostrom

“If some day we build machine brains that surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful.…

— Nick Bostrom

“In recent years, growth in the serial speed of processors has stagnated, but increased use of parallelization has enabled the total number…

— Nick Bostrom

“no simple mechanism could do the job as well or better. It might simply be that nobody has yet found the simpler…

— Nick Bostrom

“Before we end this subsection, there is one more thing that we should emphasize, which is that an artificial intelligence need not…

— Nick Bostrom

It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000.…

— Nick Bostrom

The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo…

— Nick Bostrom

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

— Nick Bostrom

“Turing’s idea of designing a program that acquires most of its content by learning, rather than having it pre-programmed at the outset,…

— Nick Bostrom

Are you living in a computer simulation?

— Nick Bostrom

“Have you ever known a moment of bliss? ... Yet behold, only a little later, scarcely an hour gone by, and the…

— Nick Bostrom

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles.…

— Nick Bostrom

“But knowing merely which neurons are connected with which is not enough. To create a brain emulation one would also need to…

— Nick Bostrom

“Another lesson is that smart professionals might give an instruction to a program based on a sensible-seeming and normally sound assumption (e.g.…

— Nick Bostrom