“Artificial Intelligence is not an amazing shiny expensive gadget to advertise in the latest tech magazines. Artificial Intelligence does not belong in the same graph that shows progress in medicine, manufacturing, and energy. Artificial Intelligence is not something you can casually mix into a lumpenfuturistic scenario of skyscrapers and flying cars and nanotechnological red blood cells that let you hold your breath for eight hours. Sufficiently tall skyscrapers don’t potentially start doing their own engineering. Humanity did not rise to prominence on Earth by holding its breath longer than other species.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI as a pos neg factor, around 2006
“Artificial Intelligence is not an amazing shiny expensive gadget to advertise in the latest tech magazines. Artificial Intelligence does not belong in the same graph that shows progress in medicine, manufacturing, and energy. Artificial Intelligence is not something you can casually mix into a lumpenfuturistic scenario of skyscrapers and flying cars and nanotechnological red blood cells that let you hold your breath for eight hours. Sufficiently tall skyscrapers don’t potentially start doing their own engineering. Humanity did not rise to prominence on Earth by holding its breath longer than other species.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI as a pos neg factor, around 2006