Henry Adams Quotes

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

All these remarkable new technologies are starting to make people very uncomfortable with the whole process of science.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

Science in our technical age has social, economic, and political functions, and however remote one's own work is from technical application it is a link in the chain of actions and decisions which determine the fate of the human race.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there is the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, … he’s sure he can control the demon. But it doesn’t work out.

I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them onto the floor. I said, 'Darcy, what are you doing?' She said: 'Don't worry, Daddy, the robot will get it.' I didn't know whether to be horrified or proud. It was this idea that homes take care of themselves and robots are part of that.

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.