Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.

Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue to be beneficial to humans.

Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.

Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.