future Quotes

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.