Zoltan Istvan

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

— Zoltan Istvan

“Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their…

— Zoltan Istvan

In the future it's very possible you could have an artificial intelligence system that can run the country better than a human…

— Zoltan Istvan

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

— Zoltan Istvan

“From our first day alive on this planet, they began teaching society everything it knows and experiences. It was all brainwashing bullshit.…

— Zoltan Istvan

I'm a fan of the simulation theory. I tend to think that most of our existence, if not all of it, is…

— Zoltan Istvan

“What prompts alarm in me is how you and your government want to ruin not only the potential of this of this…

— Zoltan Istvan

Whoever creates an artificial intelligence first has such a distinct military advantage over every other nation on the planet that they will…

— Zoltan Istvan

The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human…

— Zoltan Istvan

What I advocate for is that, as soon as we get to the point when artificial intelligence can take off and be…

— Zoltan Istvan

We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.

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Once you've created an intelligence so smart, the real job of that intelligence is to protect itself from other intelligences becoming more…

— Zoltan Istvan

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

— Zoltan Istvan

I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways,…

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“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is…

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

— Zoltan Istvan

“The bold code of the transhumanist will rise. That's an inevitable, undeniable fact. It's embedded in the undemocratic nature of technology and…

— Zoltan Istvan

“Transhumanists have a unique definition: Death is a malfunction of the human experience.”

— Zoltan Istvan

I advocate as a futurist and also as a member of the Transhumanist Party, that we never let artificial intelligence completely go…

— Zoltan Istvan

Maybe we want to keep A.I. to the level of a 16-year-old or a 17-year-old adolescent, rather than some fully maxed-out artificial…

— Zoltan Istvan

TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces: If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they…

— Zoltan Istvan

I think whatever nation or whoever develops one artificial intelligence will probably make it so that artificial intelligence always stays ahead of…

— Zoltan Istvan

If there's something else already out there in the universe, it would almost certainly have puts limits on our growth of intelligence.…

— Zoltan Istvan

If there is any person that I do follow somewhat closely, at least ideas I like, it's been Frederich Nietzsche, but he's…

— Zoltan Istvan

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

— Zoltan Istvan